#poe

Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#cry #into #poets #sleep #steam

No, I don't know any Emily Dickinson poems! ↗

— Andy Richter

#emily #i #know #poems

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#bring #find #nowhere #some #unless

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#iliad #indeed #magnificent #much #odyssey

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#asking #dance #echo #shadow

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ↗

— John Keats

#almost #appear #highest #his #own

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique. ↗

— Karl Shapiro

#does #each #experience #innocent #learn

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#may #old #old age #orator #poet

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#darkness #own #poet #sings #sits

When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#company #felt #had #i #leaves