#poetry

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. ↗

— John Barton

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My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end. ↗

— John Barton

#completely #end #happen #hard #hold

Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line.... ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#beauty

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

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#before #oral #poetry #remembers #written

People Die... Beauty Fades... Love Changes... And You Will Always Be Alone ↗

— L.J. Smith

#creepy #dark #loneliness #love #lovely

God is the perfect poet. ↗

— Robert Browning

#god #perfect #poet

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. ↗

— James Buchan

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I can look beyond the clouds to feel your love the sun will rise again to end the darkness ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith