poetry

"Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them."

"I fall in love with you four times a year: winter, spring, summer, and fall. The leaves may change, but how I feel about you does not."

"Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades."

"Ali ipak uz mene se može, mada je neobično, Sa mnom je opasno hteti, ja nikad ne odustajem."

"Romantic haste in drama bringstears and sighs when the hero diesbut the curtain fall is finalwhen in life we take the tragic wayThe sunset too is a glorious thingbut with it ends the day."

"My soul is wrapped in harsh repose,Midnight descends in raven-colored clothes,But soft... behold!A sunlight beamButting a swath of glimmering gleam.My heart expands,'tis grown a bulge in it,Inspired by your beauty...Effulgent."

"When the world is cold, use bridges for firewood. And for extra warmth, give off an aura of love, and you won't need a bridge, because the other side will come to you.-Amanda Mosher and Jarod Kintz"

"All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever."

"I am sore wounded but not slainI will lay me down and bleed a whileAnd then rise up to fight again"

"The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice."

"One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music."

"I just bought a bag of poetry, but it was mostly air. The author must have learned from the potato chip industry."

"may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone."

"If you want me again look for me under your boot soles."

"A flowing flurry of flowers fell to the floor when I fell in love, as if my heart were a garden that gushed forth and flooded her being with the fragrance of romance."

"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."

"the saddest thing is to bea minute to someone,when you've made them your eternity."

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

"I sang in my chains like the sea"

"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."