#poe

Forgive me, joy, if I blasphemed you before I learned to love. ↗

— Milan Rúfus

#forgiveness

Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#philosophical #philosophy #poetry #wisdom #wisdom-quote

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#freedom

For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles. ↗

— Socrates

#poet #socrates #inspirational

Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . . ↗

— Mary O'Neill

#book #color #inspiration #mary #o-neill

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