poetry

"And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course."

"all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means."

"The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife."

"The Old Poets Of ChinaWherever I am, the world comes after me.It offers me its busyness. It does not believethat I do not want it. Now I understandwhy the old poets of China went so far and highinto the mountains, then crept into the pale mist."

"I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns."

"In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea."

"I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife"

"We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest;And deal full many a thoughtless blow,To those who love us best."

"It is difficultto get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lackof what is found there."

"I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."

"I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps."

"Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am"

"LightLightThe visible reminder of Invisible Light."

"Flowers are aromatic and romantic, and they grow exactly the way love does—with plenty of light, and watered with affection."

"Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience."

"Never cry because you have mountains of problem in your hands to solve. Always smile because each problems will someday resolve."

"Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels."

"If you must write prose or poems, the words you use should be your own. Don't plagiarize or take 'on loan'. There's always someone, somewhere, with a big nose, who knows, who'll trip you up and laugh when you fall."

"...if you do not even understand what words say,how can you expect to pass judgementon what words conceal?"

"A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is."