#poet

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form. ↗

— Thomas Boswell

#concentration #life #poetry #speech #experience

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem. ↗

— Jane Hirshfield

#experience #poetry #time #experience

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#poetry-of-life #poetry-quotes #life

Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#poetry #lust

Making endings sound the same isn’t just bad poetry, it also slanders everyone with a superior posterior. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #poetry #funny

My sincere thanks to friends and family, especially my mother, father, brother, and Mandy, who continue to love and support me despite my obsessions. ↗

— Jonathan Ball

#embarrassment #friendship #gross #language-barrier #poetry

The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself. ↗

— Paul Auster

#food #inspirational #money #moon-palace #peom

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker) ↗

— Jim Harrison

#forgiveness

Maybe they will only find one another by being somewhere they have never been and maybe none of this has a thing to do with forgiveness but home doesn't always resemble the path. ↗

— Mikl Paul

#poetry #prose-poetry #forgiveness

Solaris a blaze of freedom raging. ↗

— R.J. Askew

#freedom