#poet

But some nights, I must tell you, I go down there after everyone has fallen asleep. I swim back and forth in the echoing blackness. I sing a love song as well as I can, lost for a while in the home of the rain. ↗

— Billy Collins

#love

I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return. ↗

— Ki Longfellow

#heart #love #need #poetry #sacrifice

I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied. ↗

— Robert Wells

#disgust #envy #life #pillar #poem

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#community #different #group #high #monica

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. ↗

— James Broughton

#denmark #france #gracious #greeted #identified

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. ↗

— James Broughton

#poetry #poets #promising #real #university

Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be. ↗

— James Broughton

#hard #image #like #most #ought

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. ↗

— James Broughton

#filled #films #images #like #page

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. ↗

— James Broughton

#me #much #poetry #practice #sexual

Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors. ↗

— James Broughton

#poets #professors #rarest #real