#poem

No poem is easily grasped; so why should any reader expect fast results? ↗

— John Barton

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I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant. ↗

— John Barton

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To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that. ↗

— John Barton

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In greatness, life and death merge. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his cap of sable shine. His right hand, bared of leathern glove, Hangs open like an iron gin, You stoop to see his pulses move, To hear the blood sweep out and in. He looks some king, so solitary In earnest thought he seems to stand, As if across a lonely sea He gazed impatient of the land. Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#warrior #death

Oh, Death was never enemy of ours! We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum. No soldier's paid to kick against His powers. We laughed, — knowing that better men would come, And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

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If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ↗

— David Carradine

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A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ↗

— Robert Frost

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Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A poem for Beth: Roses are red, Violets are blue, I didn’t know what love meant, until I looked it up in the dictionary.

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— Jarod Kintz

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