#poet

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#poetry #soul #worth #beauty

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#down #experienced #healing #hope #i

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#inalienable #logical #picturesque #poetry #sentences

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. ↗

— Robert Frost

#love #love affair #never #never take #notes

Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven! ↗

— Lord Byron

#poetry #stars #which

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#beauty #dejan-stojanovic #express #expression #feel

Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#difference #little #little difference #love #old

I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of life’s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#poetry #life

The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#appeals #enormously #even #go #heroism

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. ↗

— John Updike

#few #gagged #his #letters #line