“All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.” ~ Amy Lowell
Tag Archives: Poet
The Soul
Walking Meditation
“Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility.” ~ Gary Snyder
“To be reborn, you have to die first.” ~ Lucien Carr
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
Jack Kerouac
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 I …
“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 day …
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 the …
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
Wordables
Santosh Kalwar Quote On Break-ups
Santosh Kalwar is a Nepalese poet and writer who lives in Finland. Wordables
Love Quote by Robert Frost
Wordables
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 have …
Change
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou
Poetry
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. Source of quote
Silence
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” –Robert Frost
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Culture
Someone
What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? Life would ring bells of Ecstacy and Forever be Itself again. Allen Ginsberg June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1887 Poet, Writer Quotes Wave
Danger
A world is in danger, this planet is in great danger! Sun Ra May 22, 1914-May 30, 1993 Composer, Musician, Philosopher, Pianist and Poet Quotes Wave
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. Daniel Berrigan Born: May 9, 1921 Activist, Poet, Priest Quotes Wave
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A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician in sounds. — Henry Moore Brainy Quote
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Learning
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Impossible/Possible
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Sometimes people don’t want …
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Half the world is composed …
Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it. — Robert Frost
Hell
Hell is a half-filled auditorium. – Robert Frost
A Pondering Mind 
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