Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he loved me - he met argument with fact. He told me - that with himself also, the early freshness o...
On the last day of the worldI would want to plant a tree
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
your smile.is the ultimategolden dream.all the poemsin the worldare waking up from.
Any society that produces twice as many lawyers as it does poets and preachers is doomed.
Great poets are great copy editors.
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.
Tell me something only you know and make a new friend.
i writebecauseit is the only wayi can reach you.
We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me!
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness
You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.
A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked.
I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job
Behold yon rough and flinty roadWhere youth, now youth no more,Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loavesHe cast away of yore.
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act.
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