W. H. Auden, Anglo-American poet ~ 1907 – 1973
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A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman. ~ Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens, American Poet – 1879 – 1955
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
Fear
“Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.” – Lucretius
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 […]
Poem: Amy Lowell, Lilacs
“Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England … Lilacs in dooryards Holding quiet conversation with an early moon; Lilacs watching a deserted house; … Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom, You are everywhere.” – Amy Lowell
e. e. cummings Quote
“You and I are more than you and I because it’s we.” – e. e. cummings
Dogs – Emily Dickinson
“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.” – Emily Dickinson
War – Paul Valery
“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
Ovid Quote
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
Human Race ~ Margaret Atwood
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 […]
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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
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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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
