#poe

I now know how your anger came from skeletons that rattled in your heart and you couldn't escape them. ↗

— Susie Clevenger

#escape #haunted #memory #poetry #skeletons

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#little #made #making #matter #obsessed

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ↗

— Novalis

#heals #inflicted #reason #wounds

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#i was raised #lot #me #poet #raised

Scientific understanding is often beautiful, a profoundly aesthetic experience which gives pleasure not unlike the reading of a great poem. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#beautiful #experience #gives #great #often

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure. ↗

— George Eliot

#knowledge #poetry #art

To create art means to be crazy alone forever. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#bukowskisism #poetry #art

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#food #poetry

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. ↗

— Barack Obama

#active #avoid #being #black #carefully

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#became #booked #first #hughes #i