#poetry

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#gardening #landscape #nature #poetry #education

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ↗

— Mary Oliver

#life

What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#cherry-blossoms #haiku #japan #life #poetry

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#poetry #life

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? ↗

— Mary Oliver

#life

I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#love #poetry #share #life

You only live twice: Once when you're born And once when you look death in the face. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#james-bond #philosophy #poetry #death

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#death

I have been used to consider poetry as "the food of love" said Darcy. "Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away. ↗

— Jane Austen

#banter #courtship #poetry #food

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit. ↗

— Robert Burns

#meat #poetry #robert-burns #food