#poet

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#genuine #hanging #known #like #look

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#poetry #the-continent-s-end #life

A poem is never finished, only abandoned. ↗

— Paul Valery

#abandoned #finished #never #only #poem

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings. ↗

— Alex Cox

#english #english language #greatest #his #language

I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do. ↗

— Luke Treadaway

#been #bit #dabble #i #i do

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate) ↗

— Mary Oliver

#love #nature #poetry #beauty