#poe

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#before #oral #poetry #remembers #written

People Die... Beauty Fades... Love Changes... And You Will Always Be Alone ↗

— L.J. Smith

#creepy #dark #loneliness #love #lovely

You lethargic, waiting upon me, waiting for the fire and I attendant upon you, shaken by your beauty Shaken by your beauty Shaken. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#poetry #beauty

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being. ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#condition #enlarged #enriches #horizon #human

God is the perfect poet. ↗

— Robert Browning

#god #perfect #poet

Poetry is life distilled. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#life #poetry

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. ↗

— James Broughton

#denmark #france #gracious #greeted #identified

For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic. ↗

— James Broughton

#itself #magic #me #out #poem

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. ↗

— James Broughton

#poetry #poets #promising #real #university

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be. ↗

— James Broughton

#hard #image #like #most #ought