Poet – A Pondering Mind

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Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash Carol Ann Duffy, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom – May 1, 2009 – May 10, 2019 Born in Glasgow, Scotland

War

“War: a massacre of people who don’t know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don’t massacre each other.” ~ Paul Valery, Poet, 1871 – 1945

“I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.” ~Antonio Porchia

Our Stories

“Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright’s pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.” ~ Maya Angelou

Finishing up Jack Kerouac’s novel: The Town and The City. Its the second time I have read it, and its an interesting read. The beginning of the book, he mentions the city I was born and raised in, the city I reside in now, and the river which is only two blocks away. When IContinue reading “Jack Kerouac”

“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.” ~ Jack Kerouac

Dreaming

“Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.” ~ Petrarch, Poet, 1304 – 1374

“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.” ~W. H. Auden

Treasured Wealth

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ~Henry David Thoreau

“And so love goes. And so life goes. And so I go.” ~ Neal Cassady

“I don’t think there is any truth. There are only points of view.” ~Allen Ginsberg

“To silence gossip, don’t repeat it.” ~ John Keats

Bleak Midwinter

“In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.” ~ Christina Rossetti, Poet 1830-1894

“If we couldn’t laugh we would all go insane.” ~Robert Frost

Promises To Keep

“But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.” ~ Robert Frost

“I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.” ~ Sara Teasdale

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. ~ W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden, Anglo-American poet ~ 1907 – 1973

To See A World ~ William Blake

Emily Dickinson Poem

A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. ~Emily Dickinson, “A Word is Dead

John Donne ~ Autumn

No spring nor summer’s beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face…. ~John Donne, “Elegy IX: The Autumnal”

Wallace Stevens Poetry Quote

Poem: Walt Whitman, Miracles

“As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the roofs of houses toward the sky, Or wade with naked feet along the beach just in the edge of the water, Or stand under the trees in the woods, Or talk by dayContinue reading “Poem: Walt Whitman, Miracles”

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Cup Of Coffee – Charles Bukowski

“I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.” – Charles Bukowski

Poetry Quote

“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.” – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Nature ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

The charming landscape which I saw this morning is indubitably made up of some 20 or 30 farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all theContinue reading “Nature ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson”

Mainstream Media

Born: March 24, 1919

Everything In Life Is Writable

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. -Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

Poetry Is….

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. -Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Fire And Ice ~ Robert Frost

From the Robert Frost poem, Fire and Ice written in 1923. Wordables.com

Jack Kerouac

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of thinking and enjoying what they call living, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds. Jack Kerouac

Robert Frost Quote

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Santosh Kalwar Quote On Break-ups

Santosh Kalwar is a Nepalese poet and writer who lives in Finland. Wordables

Love Quote by Robert Frost

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Edgar Allan Poe Quote

Ralph Waldo Emerson Quote

Born: May 25, 1803 – Died: April 27, 1882

Robert Frost Quote

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost http://www.bquot.es/s/2710

Chinua Achebe Quote

“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we haveContinue reading “Chinua Achebe Quote”