#poe

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#children #die #five #give #hope

What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#attitude #bit #could #driven #greek

For me, poetry is always a search for order. ↗

— Elizabeth Jennings

#me #order #poetry #search

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before. ↗

— Hart Crane

#before #bridge #contented #ever #fancy

Children are our future. We teach them today; what will they do tomorrow? ↗

— Tanya R. Liverman

#educational-system #inspiration #poetry #education

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a French poet. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#born #french #french language #guest #i

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#each #further #glimpse #goes #much

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#incidentally #including #interesting #into #lot

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing. ↗

— R.M. Engelhardt

#on-poetry #poet #r-m-engelhardt #writer #writing-life

Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#before #everywhere #find #go #i