"Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces."
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1996 quotes about poetry
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"One need not be a Chamber — to be Haunted — One need not be a House — The Brain has Corridors — surpassing Material Place —"
"I drift like a cloud,Across these venerable eastern lands,A journey of unfathomable distances,An endless scroll of experiences...Lady Zhejiang here we must part,For the next province awaits my embrace.Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East,Where do you go?"
"The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife."
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make."
"Hello Poetry Needs Y'allz How empty the oceans would be were it only filled with orcas."
"Say This to Her/Him and Just See What Happens... *I want to kiss you in places I've never kissed you before."
"You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he reaches over and he touches you, like a prayer for which no words exist, and you feel your heart taking root in your body, like you've discovered something you don't even have a name for."
"The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side of the Hill That's because my lawn is on a south-facing slope of the hill and more more open to sunlight and warm winds. It's dryer due to higher levels of evapotranspiration than my neighbor's greener north-facing slope.I'm not the least bit envious of the color of his greener grass.I'm just pissed that the prick owns a better piece of real estate."
"Some of you say, “Joy is greater than sorrow,” and others say, “Nay, sorrow is the greater.”But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed."
"Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality."
"Mind led bodyto the edge of the precipice.They stared in desireat the naked abyss.If you love me, said mind,take that step into silence.If you love me, said body,turn and exist."
"You're Totally Fucked' Defined [10w] What's before you is hopeless and behind you is negligible."
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"Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie."
"I'm at that place I grew up to leave."
"Poetry and Dogs [10w] Poetry and dogs make the best companions.Don't trust dogs."
"I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me."
"part memory part distance remainingmine in the ways that I learn to miss you"