Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Carl Sandburg
Related Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. CARL SANDBURG Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air CARL SANDBURG Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. CARL SANDBURG Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky. CARL SANDBURG I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb. ANNE SEXTON Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. MARK STRAND (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Close your eyes and let music set you free. CHARLES HART To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place. THE SCRIPT Policeman says, "Son you can't stay here" I said, "There's someone I'm waiting for if it's a da... THE SCRIPT They're kicking us out saying it's time to close We're leaning on each other try'na beat the c... THE SCRIPT Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people. CRAIG GROESCHEL You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK No drowning man can know which drop Of water his last breath did stop CHARLES SEDLEY And these Things, which live by perishing, know you are praising them; transient, they lo... RAINER MARIA RILKE A great future starts with what you can see SOTONYE ANGA Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea... ALAN BENNETT He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually. JIMI HENDRIX I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. EUGENIO MONTALE In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. The poet strips naked. The philosopher takes notes. MARTY RUBIN Stay away from the underground lake I implore, The Siren will see you are heard of no more. E.A. BUCCHIANERI I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes! DEYTH BANGER The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS You must expect to make enemies." "I never expect to make anything else," he said. SUSAN KAY Is the mask magic?" he demanded with sudden, passionate interest. "Yes." I bowed my head, so th... SUSAN KAY I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune. Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone ... THE AMERICAN POETRY AND LITERACY PROJECT Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY If life is a bowl of cherries, what's inside of it? JOSH STERN Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS The Gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage. MARY STEWART [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. Sh... ANNE CARSON Now Leroux, what think you Of this twist to the story? E.A. BUCCHIANERI Have they known scorn like you Five cellars down? E.A. BUCCHIANERI How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... C. JOYBELL C. How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened. Gandalf: So do a... PHILIPPA BOYENS Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you... BILAL TANWEER There is always a good choice and there is always a better choice. There is always the best choice a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If Erik existed and lived life in despair, We wish him to know we are here and we care. E.A. BUCCHIANERI The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew. SOTONYE ANGA Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones. PERICLES And surely We have honored the children of Adam, and We carry them in the land and the sea, and We h... QURAN The world is full of poetry. 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