Only the writers can change or fix the past by going back to edit old works
Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.
If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn't start searching for fans. If you are truly a god, then le...
A chronic poet should always be an inveterate nature-lover.
Carpe diem.Seize the day, boys.Make your lives extraordinary
We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm.
It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law; I say you are a contradiction...
My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them.
The writing talent of Edinburgh is textured - we have poets, novelists, non-fiction writers, dramatists and more.
in a worldfull oftemporary thingsyou area perpetual feeling.
And when they dusted my mind for your fingerprints they found yours.
I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection is that the doctrine requires a ridiculous amount of erudition (pedantry), a claim which...
For the novelist or poet, for the scientist or artist, the question is not do ideas come from, the question is how they come. The is the mystery. The how is fragile.
Feminine psychology is admittedly odd, sir. The poet Pope...""Never mind about the poet Pope, Jeeves.""No, sir.""There are times when one wants to hear all about the poet Pope and times when one doesn...
a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read.
I used to know Brian Howard well -- a dazzling young man to my innocent eyes. In later life he became very dangerous -- constantly attacking people with his fists in public places -- so I kept clear o...
On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree
She day-dreams just as I do. She is addicted to her solitude just as I am. She loves watching the rain-drops fall slowly on to the green leaves of an old guava tree just as I do. She loves drifting in...
If you're an artist, always keep at it, there will be someone out there who sees the universe and soul in what you've created. Maybe they can't afford it, but it calls them like the siren in a sea, an...
poets. have the toughest jobin the universe-of turning silenceinto eloquence.
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