#poe

Prose talks and poetry sings. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#prose #sings #talks

Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook ↗

— Nizar Qabbani

#lantern #light #poem #inspirational

IMPROVIDENCE The other lives I might have led All now might as well be Dead. Survived by no one. Barren, without issue of any sort: This withered bud, failed In art and love. With no time left To change my course. But time enough for infinite remorse. ↗

— John Tottenham

#poetry #change

For poetry and I are one To separate is to decapitate For my poetry is forever. ↗

— Kerry D. Brackett

#african-american-authors #inspirational #poetry #inspirational

Spring is like a perhaps hand Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people look(while people stare arranging and changing placing carefully there a strange thing and a known thing here)and changing everything carefully spring is like a perhaps Hand in a window (carefully to and fro moving New and Old things,while people stare carefully moving a perhaps fraction of flower here placing an inch of air there)and without breaking anything. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#change

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. ↗

— Allen Tate

#besides #deal #dreams #great #great deal

think think think until you blink ↗

— ganeshsaidheeraj

#love #men-rights #poems #science #women

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#bad #feeling #genuine #springs

A few weeks later, in the wood, I came across Miss Riding Hood. But what a change! No cloak of red, No silly hood upon her head. She said, 'Hello, and do please note My lovely furry wolfskin coat. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#red-riding-hood-and-the-wolf #change

Χόρεψε πάνω στο φτερό του καρχαρία/ παίξε τον άνεμο στη γλώσσα σου και πέρνα. (Από το ποίημα "Γυναίκα" ) ↗

— Νίκος Καββαδίας

#poetry #sea #strength #δύναμη #θάλασσα