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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Alfred de Musset
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.

Jim Harrison
We are supposed to write poetry to keep the gods alive.

Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young,...

Judd
Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.

We only pass everything by like a transposition of air.

Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies
We only pass everything by like a transposition of air.

O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl - a bit like Crab Nebula - do for now.

Charles Olson
O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl - a bit like Crab Nebula - do for now.

And strange-eyed constellations reign His stars eternally.

Thomas Hardy Selected Poems
And strange-eyed constellations reign His stars eternally.

ERIC: What are you always writin' in that book anyway?...

Zack Love Stories and...
ERIC: What are you always writin' in that book anyway?
RODNEY: Poetry.
TYRONE: Poetry?
Rodney stops sketching and sentimentally flips through a few dozen pages of sketches and handwritten poems and notes.
RODNEY: Poetry and pictures. Snapshots of our lives developed in the darkrooms of our souls.
From CENTRAL PARK SONG - - a screenplay

There isn't enough paper in the world to write all the poems you inspire in me.

Rae D. Magdon The Second...
There isn't enough paper in the world to write all the poems you inspire in me.

We are merely ghost flowers under the shade of the moon...

Steven A. Williams Black
We are merely ghost flowers under the shade of the moon
Many shades of secret sorrows blanket our eyes
We spend our lives and our souls
Searching - Longing - Waiting - For a little light to shine and heal our broken halos

If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in the dictionary, you probably have the most basic equipment you need to be a poet.

Billy Collins
If you look a word up in the dictionary and twenty minutes later you're still wandering around in the dictionary, you probably have the most basic equipment you need to be a poet.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

Siegfried Sassoon
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: Tonight the wife and children will be quiet At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall.

Seamus Heaney
He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: Tonight the wife and children will be quiet At slammed door and smoker's cough in the hall.

She had just enough madness to make her interesting

Atticus Poetry Love Her Wild:...
She had just enough madness to make her interesting

"The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw - taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say."

Louis L'Amour Hondo
"The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw - taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say."

I saw a dog pursuing automobiles; On and on he sped. I was puzzled by this; I accosted the dog. 'If you catch one,' I said 'What will you do with it?' 'Dumb cat,' he cried, And ran on.

Henry N. Beard Poetry for Cats:...
I saw a dog pursuing automobiles; On and on he sped. I was puzzled by this; I accosted the dog. 'If you catch one,' I said 'What will you do with it?' 'Dumb cat,' he cried, And ran on.

The sky drops silver threads of sleet.

Anthony Doerr All the Light We...
The sky drops silver threads of sleet.

here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide and this is the wonder that's keeping the...

e. e. cummings Selected Poems
here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart{i carry it in my heart} Edward Estlin Cummings

Swifter far than summer's flight, Swifter far than youth's delight, Swifter far than happy night, Art thou come and gone: As the earth when leaves are dead, As the night when sleep is sped, As the...

James Baldwin Six Centuries of...
Swifter far than summer's flight, Swifter far than youth's delight, Swifter far than happy night, Art thou come and gone: As the earth when leaves are dead, As the night when sleep is sped, As the heart when joy is fled, I am left alone, alone.

I couldn't tell fact from fiction,Or if the dream was trueMy only sure predictio

Maya Angelou (Author)

A certain person wondered whya big strong girl like mewouldn't keep a jobwhich paid a normal salary.I took my time to lead herand to read her every page.Even minimal peoplecan't survive on minimal...

Maya Angelou I Shall Not Be...

It's the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I'm a woman Phenomenally.

Maya Angelou Phenomenal...

In India when I was a boy they had great big green lizards there, and if you shouted or shot them their tails would fall off. There was only one boy in the school who could catch lizards intact. No...

Lawrence Durrell Writers At Work:...

One! two! and through and throughThe vorpal blade went snickersnack!He left it dead, and with its headHe went galumphing back.

Lewis Carroll Through the...

Do you remember our sweet life, when we were so young, and that we had no other desire at the heart than being well put on and being in love, when by adding your age, we did not count at two forty...

Victor Hugo Les Miserables

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless criesAnd look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich...

William Shakespeare Sonnets

It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it.

Richard Russo Nobody's Fool

I would not come in.I meant not even if asked,And I hadn't been.

Robert Frost The Poetry of...

GATHERING LEAVESSpades take up leavesNo better than spoons,And bags full of leavesAre light as balloons.I make a great noiseOf rustling all dayLike rabbit and deerRunning away.But the mountains I...

Robert Frost

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason

Robert Frost

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningWhose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village, though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must...

Robert Frost Stopping by...
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