#poetry

"My best testimonies are from the times I thought I couldn't survive."

"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."

"It was at that agethat poetry came in search of me."

"Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of passionate intensity."

"The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second."

"Informal HP Survey: Should Poetry Rhyme? O.K., readers, anybody who thinks poetry should rhymeplease tap your caneor jiggle your walker."

"Home Never give up a home for a house;you may never find a home again."

"Maine State Motto Dirigo. [10]You won't find no niggers here, eh."

"Elegance in Simplicity [10w] The more complex the problem,the simpler the correct answer."

"Optimists vs. Death [10w] Optimists are hopeful people who see a coffin as half-full."

"Heart My heart jumps every time you walk through the door.It's not love.I have an arrhythmia."

"Lie beside me, oh my beloved! For thy thorns are more pleasurable than the petals of the world.Hold me in thy arms of hope, for the truth of separation can rest tonight."

"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."

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

"Cormorant’s Flight [10w] The cormorant’s flight is the first shadow of the wave."

"I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."

"On I’ll pass,dragging my huge love behind me.On whatfeverish night, deliria-ridden,by what Goliaths was I begot – I, so bigand by no one needed?"

"and sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn't anyoneto thinkabout and i wonderis it worth it"

"I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."

"Poetry, plays, novels, music, they are the cry of the human spirit trying to understand itself and make sense of our world."