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The river of knowledge has no depth.
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She lends her pen,
to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.
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Mother Superior jump the gun...
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Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
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Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that...
CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you...
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Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in... WALLACE STEVENS Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
VICENTE ALEIXANDRE
To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary. EDGAR ALLAN POE All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet i...
STEVIE SMITH PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA
A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote. YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exp... MARK STRAND Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle. EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth--the true poet is very near the oracle. EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN
My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t... DEYTH BANGER In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. –...
PHILIP ZALESKI
None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio... EDITH HAMILTON
Love is the poetry of the senses. HONORE DE BALZAC The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned a...
A. R. AMMONS To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... I'm with the federal government, Drummond, Trust me is another way of saying I'm lying.
BRIAN HAIG
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar... LAURA RIDING
Marriage, if one will face the truth, is an evil, but a necessary evil. MENANDER
In this storyI am the poet
You're the poetry.
ARZUM UZUN
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarel... HOWARD NEMEROV
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth tell... HUSTON SMITH
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quic... GEORGE ELIOT Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA For me, I think Andre Drummond is going to be a superstar. We didn't have that. We had a lot of ...
CHAUNCEY BILLUPS Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the r...
SALVATORE QUASIMODO The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes.
MARTY RUBIN When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembe...
UMBERTO ECO
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a ... EDWARD DOWDEN Her poetry, which she uses to examine her deepest feelings, is beautifully crafted, She's developed ...
KATE KELLY You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS I didn't start as a dialect poet, ... talked again and again about poetry.
PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. MAX EASTMAN If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN
Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature. DEYTH BANGER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING
He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd... NORA ROBERTS
Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their ... VIRGINIA WOOLF
I act as the tongue of you,... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.
WALT WHITMAN
I have wished you something None of the others would....
PHILIP LARKIN
An artist is identical with an anarchist,' he cried. 'You might transpose the words anywhere. An ana... G.K. CHESTERTON
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a ... GEORGE SAND Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you...
BILAL TANWEER
Poetry is a form of necessary speech... I have sought to restore the aura of sacred practice that ac... EDWARD HIRSCH The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single,...
MELISSA LEE-HOUGHTON Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies
OSCAR SPARROW I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.
MELISSA LEE-HOUGHTON I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act.
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the expe... EDWARD HIRSCH
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries t... WILLIAM FAULKNER
The river of knowledge has no depth. CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN if you love someone,you did not think if it was right...all you know was you love the person so much...
VERONICA LAPPAY Life is what it is supposed to be, its just not always what you want it to be...
DANIEL GILMAN
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so conc... NIELS BOHR
He who finds elevated and lofty pleasure in the feeling of poetry is a true poet, though he never co... MADAME DUDEVANT
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of... ROBIN WILLIAMS I did literature at university, so I had a real relationship with poetry, but they don't make ma...
ALICE EVE Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY
She lends her pen,to thoughts of him,
that flow from it,
in her solitary.
LANG LEAV We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of...
TOM SCHULMAN
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of... WALT WHITMAN There ain't no money in poetry, that's what keeps the poet free. I've had all the freedom I can stan...
GUY CLARK It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN They found the manager of that building right underneath that blanket. His name was Carlos Garcia. H...
GARY MICHIELS
Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i... GEORGE ORWELL
Mother Superior jump the gun...-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE
That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f... GEORGE HARRISON There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.
ROBERT GRAVES
Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention. MARK STRAND
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
YEHUDA AMICHAI The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inheren...
SAINT-JOHN PERSE Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead.
FEDERICO GARCíA LORCA
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what ... ALLEN GINSBERG
Carlos is better. His range of motion improved. He pushed it hard yesterday, but we'll just have to ... JOE GIBBS
Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes... MARY OLIVER Life does not always promise happiness, but know that I'll always be there for you, through all the ...
DANI MROUE All I ask the haters--and I, too, am one--is that they strive to perfect their contempt, even consid...
BEN LERNER When I'm down in the dumps, you lift me up, when things seem insurmountable, you elevate my hopes in...
DANI MROUE
But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others. ANDREW MOTION
One error, in fact, of eccentricity in poetry is to seek for new human emotions to express; and in t... T.S. ELIOT
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and pros... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a suspension of belief. A poet must never make ... W. H. AUDEN
Let my life as Poet begin. I want the life of the Poet. I have labored for over twelve years, one th... MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I mak... MAYA ANGELOU Your latest news is just news being repeated over and over again. It's old news already.
ANDONI GARCIA
I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. ... LEONARD COHEN
Sometimes we need a wise guide to peel back the ceiling of our lives to remind us that infinity neve... CURTIS TYRONE JONES
Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat.
P...
KAMAND KOJOURI
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry. NATHALIE SARRAUTE
The people who influence you are the people who believe in you. 
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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among tro... 
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong ... 
He who dares not (reason), is a slave. 
Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274 The tendency of the religions of all... 
Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou a... 
Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove,
Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own;
Tho... 
God never had a church but there, men say,
The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,
I dou... 
There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same. 
U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the whi... 
Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective. 
We continue to be bullish on China. 
First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bou... 
My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a co... 
We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the ... 