“To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.” ~ William Blake ‘Auguries of Innocence’ (c. 1803)
Tag Archives: poetry
Personality is everything in art and poetry. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’ ~ William Butler Yeats
Poetry ~ Jim Morrison
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they say and feel. ~ Jim Morrison
To see the Summer Sky ~ Emily Dickinson
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie – True Poems flee – ~Emily Dickinson, c.1879
On a summer night ….
Louis Kronenberger, Quote
The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. ~ Louis Kronenberger – American literary critic and novelist 1904-1980
“Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.” ~ Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton Born: June 27, 1936 – Died: February 13, 2010 – Poet, author
John Quincy Adams Quote
“I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.” ~ John Quincy Adams
Dancing is silent poetry. ~ Simonides (556-468bc)
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty of words. ~ Edgar Allan Poe
“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.” ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Thank Heaven ~ Edgar Allan Poe
Emotion
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” ~ Robert Frost
George Cooper, October’s Party
October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came– The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss Weather led the dancing, Professor Wind the band. -George Cooper, October’s Party
Christina Rossetti Poem: Changing Seasons
“January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny June Brings longest day; In scorched July The storm-clouds fly, Lightning-torn; August bears corn, September fruit; In rough October Earth must disrobe her; Stars fall and shoot In keen November; And night is […]
Autumnal Winds
Wild is the music of autumnal winds Amongst the faded woods. ~William Wordsworth
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”
John W. Fellows ~ Poem
I want to hear the simmer Of the old coffee pot; I want to hear it hummin’ When it’d gettin’ good and hot; I want to see the vapor rise, Like incense in the room, And float about a-fillin’ Every corner with perfume. ~John W. Fellows, “The Old Coffee Pot,” in The People’s Home Journal, […]
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 […]
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
Beauty In Words
“Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.” – Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry Quote ~ Novalis
Bio: Novalis was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism.
Jamie Lynn Morris Poem
Like butterflies in Spring Poetry awakens the Spirit, stirs the imagination and explores the possibilities with each stroke of its rhythmic wings. ~Jamie Lynn Morris
Philosophical Poem
See without looking, hear without listening, breathe without asking. ~W.H. Auden
Poetry Quote
“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.” – Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A Little Loving
Folks, I’m telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean— so get yourself a little loving in between. ~Langston Hughes (1902–1967)
Summer Sky
To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie – True Poems flee ~Emily Dickinson, C.1879
Power
Born: May 29, 1917 – Died: November 22, 1963
The Wind
The wind blew very hard that day And snatched her petticoat away. ~Gustave Flaubert Pt III, Ch. VIII – Madame Bovary (1857)
Poetry Is….
Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them. -Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Music
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry, music without the idea is simply music; the idea without the music is prose from its very definitiveness. Edgar Allan Poe, Letter to Mr. B-
Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty of words. Edgar Allan Poe
Poem
Jack had a snack at the local chicken shack when he heard a quack from a duck in a crack it’s time to give it some slack
Allen Ginsberg Quote On Poetry
Wordables
Allen Ginsberg On Poetry
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti On Poetry
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M.D. Waters – Forever
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Leonardo da Vinci On Painting
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Jack Kerouac On Poetry
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Am I A Poet
I have been told be a few followers of my blog, and mention they like my poems. When I was a boy of school age, I detested poetry, hated reading and listening to it. Back in the 1990s, I bought an Edgar Allan Poe book with all of his poems, and short stories. A friend […]
Life Is A B Movie
Poetry
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. Source of quote
Zen is not a philosophy,… – Osho
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A Few Photos Of Hipsters
What ever floats their boats. Seen on: Daily Picdump / unknown photographers
