#poet

Optimism / stung like grit in my swimsuit all the long ride home . . . ↗

— Lesley Wheeler

#home

For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#poetry #age

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#poetry #sanity #humor

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#good-life #music #poetry #self-improvement #art

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. ↗

— Simone Veil

#beautiful #fixing #his #poet #produces

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#simplicity #age

To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation...Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#philosophy #poetry #love

There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life. ↗

— Raegan Butcher

#poetry #prisoners #humor

Failure: the renewable resource. ↗

— Kay Ryan

#poetry #humor

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon. ↗

— Guy Davenport

#poetry #imagination