#poet

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#frauds #going #name #poet #point

I hope for a light grief in old age. I was born in Rome and it has returned to me. My autumn was a kind of she-wolf, And August - the month of Caesars - smiled at me. ↗

— Osip Mandel'shtam

#age

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#idealistic #life #ones #poetry #treated

I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#poetry #science #science

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat. ↗

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#dream #poetry #art

Love could never be forever only for a lifetime, only God can love eternally. ↗

— Jeannette Scollard

#poetry #love

SOWING LIGHTNING Seize Bolts of lightning from the sky And plant them in fields of life. They will grow like tender sprouts of fire. Charge somber thoughts With unexpected flash, You, my lightning in the soil! ↗

— Visar Zhiti

#creativity #lightning #poetry #art

Secure in his flight Rider on the constant winds Hawk flies through his days Looks then to the east Prompted by fate’s gentle breeze Changes his intent Fate’s gentle breezes Move the mighty heart to change Destiny remade ↗

— Steve Robison

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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

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