#poe

I can look beyond the clouds to feel your love the sun will rise again to end the darkness ↗

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #attention #care #common #culture

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. ↗

— John Updike

#goes #man #middle-aged #middle-aged man #off

These hands are unlike any other strong but gentle caring loving and understanding ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

These hands will never go away they will scoop you up at anytime anytime that you want to be loved ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down. ↗

— John Ciardi

#any #begins #concern #concerns #down

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#indispensable #knew #only #poetry

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#children #cut #his #knot #life

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#always #liar #poet #speaks #truth

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ↗