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.
A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.
You were the poem I never knew how to write because no words could describe the wind you cannot see, but feel.
Traveling down a road of self-destructionWith no room for any reconstruction
Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read and considered the things they wrote.
I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead
Behold yon rough and flinty roadWhere youth, now youth no more,Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loavesHe cast away of yore.
The birds are in their trees,the toast is in the toaster,and the poets are at their windows.[...]The proofreaders are playing the ping-ponggame of proofreading,glancing back and forth from page to pag...
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
A poet's fantasy: Hiring a rapper to rap his rhymes.
A poem in the heart is worthmore than a million dollarsin the bank account.
Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.
Tis the wink of an eye, 'tis the draught of a breath,From the blossom of health to the paleness of death,From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud-Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Let your writing liberate you. Write with passion to allow your feelings to breathe and enjoy the journey across blank pages.
Without space, there is no time.
GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it...
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
When I reached the vestibule of my apartment building, the campus police closed in on me. I heard Professor Edelstein shout, it's okay, he's a poet. Matter of fact, the best black ... the best poet wr...
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land wanting to fly in the air.
A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe helps to extend eve...