#poe

In the boundaryless forests, there’re dancers of nude. Yet in the confines of pasture, there’s promise of food. On which is your side? Ô, but tarry and bide, ere you decide, in both do confide. ↗

— Roman Payne

#growing-up #life #poems #poetry #rhymes

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion, but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life, that it is in this way that poetry becomes the greatest truth, by intensification, condensation of experience. While poetry is considered by most as illusion or delusion, it is the only reality, the moment when we are completely alive. ↗

— Anais Nin

#mystics #passion #poetry #truth #experience

A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way, to hum it to yourself. You desire, if only in the sound studio of your imagination, to repeat the physical experience of that sentence. That craving, emotional and intellectual but beginning in the body with a certain gesture of sound, is near the heart of poetry. ↗

— Robert Pinsky

#experience

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#inferno #italian-medieval-poetry #lustful #passion #reason

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem. ↗

— Jane Hirshfield

#experience #poetry #time #experience

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#poetry-of-life #poetry-quotes #life

Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#poetry #lust

Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement. ↗

— William Stafford

#experience

My relationship stays strong because I serenade her with my actions and I write poetry in her heart with my deeds. My endless love is expressed with more than just my words; my love is lived as a verb. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#deeds #endless-love #happiness #heart #life

Spirituality is the poetry of our experience. Science is the gauge of our reality. Together, they create the essence of our humanity. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#humanity #poetry #science-reality #spirituality #experience