“A poet's marriage to his time is a forced marriage. A marriage of which - as of any suffered violence - he… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
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Everyday, things are getting better Here one day I'll be going backwards Until that day, I'll just wonder Why have I not… — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
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What is the beauty of the haiku is that it is not simplistic. The beauty of the haiku I just said is… — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
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The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
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Love is when ssomebody gives you a shoulder to cry on. Love is soomebody makes you laugh when you're sad. Love is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I believe that from that Earth emerges a musical poetry, which is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
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Freud ... showed us that poetry is indigenous to the very constitution of the mind ; he saw the mind as being,… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
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“Charles Edwin Anson Markham (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940) was an American poet.. "Ah, great it is to believe the… — Markham Edwin Copy Share Image
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“The Everlasting Staircase" Jeffrey McDaniel When the call came, saying twenty-four hours to live, my first thought was: can't she postpone her… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
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![“[On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is…” quote by T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e07/t-s-eliot-633_bits_on-the-waste-land-various-critics-have-d_2387391.png)
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