"Senility [10w] Senility's like a bottle of Coke that lost its bubbles."
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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
"Control [10w] Don't lose control by imagining you can control your lover."
"whatever you dobe gentle with yourself.you don’t just livein this worldor your homeor your skin.you also livein someone’s eyes."
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
"Pain vs. Pleasure {Couplet} Pain and pleasure are nearly identical,the difference lies in their temporal perception.Pleasure feels fleeting, pain feels unending;both jolt us at the nerve's first inception."
"True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign."
"Russian, Metafizicheskiy-poshlost This is the humorous metaphysical banality like watching Tolstoy's wife, Sophia, nag her husband about leaving borscht stains on the table linen. The resulting discombobulation totally messed up the ending of Anna Karenina."
"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."
"When Old Age Begins Old age seizes center stagewhen more people we love are amidst the deadthan amongst the living."
"Poetry and Love [10w] Poetry and love are two faces of the same coin."
"Embittered [10w] "His heart blistered like paint peeling from an old rig."
"Promising vs. Promises A promising life comes from a childhood without broken promises."
"Crying in the Rain If you cry in the raindoes anybody but you know you're unhappy?"
"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."
"And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered."
"and sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn't anyoneto thinkabout and i wonderis it worth it"
"Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze."
"Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds."
"Love isn’t in a hurry like a flurry of flowery words on paper. It’s lush and slow to grow its aroma in the garden of time."
"Celebrity [10w] Celebrity is an insignificant zit on the surface of history."