"Depression Busy people have neither the time nor the swimming skills to take a divein a pool of depression."
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1996 quotes about poetry
Discover inspiring poetry quotes from famous authors and thought leaders. Find wisdom and motivation about poetry to inspire your life.
poetry Quotes
"Enemies {couplet} Ne'er shall man's enemies been drawn so near,then when he seeketh to compare."
"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."
"The heart pumps blood, a fluid, but it also pulses love, which is as liquid as a wave, and everyone wants a refill. My goal is to be a server."
"Ballz Deep & Strange Haiku [1] Down the schnapps, third eye,cat flaps, pussy hole, fish lips,cha cha, ooo la la."
"Some men are born sodomites, some achieve sodomy, and some have sodomy thrust upon them..."
"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
"We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon."
"Finally, I Know Who I Am You are what you eat.~ Ludwig Andreas FeuerbachWe become what we think about.~ Earl NightingaleI'm a Horny Pizza!"
"Siesta Mud tracked from the rice fields blazon a pathFrom kitchen to cellar escaping noon’s wrath.A quiet siesta to break the ordealOf scything and sifting and spinning the wheel.Half a dream later he returns to the fieldTo seeding earth’s furrows. massaging its yield.And when Sun descends gravely back to her tombHe tracks back to the kitchen, the cellar, his room."
"We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time."
"Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance."
"Obscure Poetry Obscurity does not make a poem better or deeper.It simply makes it obscure."
"Tonight I saw myself in the dark window asthe image of my father, whose lifewas spent like this,thinking of death, to the exclusionof other sensual matters,so in the end that lifewas easy to give up, sinceit contained nothing: evenmy mother's voice couldn't make himchange or turn backas he believedthat once you can't love another human beingyou have no place in the world."
"I could do with a bit more excess. From now on I'm going to be immoderate--and volatile--I shall enjoy loud music and lurid poetry. I shall be rampant."
"Star No matter how bright the star, it's just part of a galaxy which is part of a constellation which is part of the night skywhich is part of the known universewhich is a speck of dust in God's eye."
"Bridges [10w] Bridges are overpasses for commuters and roofs for the homeless."
"Iran [10w] In Teheran daylight dawnswith minarets against skies of bronze."
"We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy."
"Galoshes Haiku Cherry blossoms bloomin the morning mist.Thank God I took my galoshes."