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#poetry

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I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry ... ↗


— Marina Tsvetaeva


#life

Poetry is a totally different art than film. ↗


— Stan Brakhage


#different #film #poetry #than #totally

All of these teeth had once been in real, live people. They had talked and smiled and eaten and sang and cursed and prayed. They had brushed and flossed and died. In English class, we read poems about death, but here, right in front of me was a poem about death too. ↗


— Gabrielle Zevin


#evidence #poetry #teeth #death

Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private. ↗


— Allen Ginsberg


#human mind #known #mind #original #outlet

The campus, an academy of trees, under which some hand, the wind's I guess, had scattered the pale light of thousands of spring beauties, petals stained with pink veins; secret, blooming for themselves. We sat among them. Your long fingers, thin body, and long bones of improbable genius; some scattered gene as Kafka must have had. Your deep voice, this passing dust of miracles. That simple that was myself, half conscious, as though each moment was a page where words appeared; the bent hammer of the type struck against the moving ribbon. The light air, the restless leaves; the ripple of time warped by our longing. There, as if we were painted by some unknown impressionist. ↗


— Ruth Stone


#nostalgia #poetry #beauty

The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us. ↗


— André Breton


#poets #beauty

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem. ↗


— David Carradine


#cannot #poem #poet #you

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose. ↗


— Mario Cuomo


#govern #poetry #prose #you

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. ↗


— Diane Wakoski


#current #current events #events #good #i

For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts. ↗


— John Drinkwater


#few #infinitely #man #moods #poetry






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