#poetry

Love is the poetry of the senses. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#love is #poetry #senses

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. ↗

— Vicente Aleixandre

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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#dreams #function #give #great #our

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. ↗

— Mario Batali

#book #college #day #different #dirty

Summer night-- even the stars are whispering to each other. ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#stars

I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine. ↗

— Jim Carroll

#sins #dreams

Songs of myself These are really the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, If they are not yours as much as mine they are nothing, or next to nothing, If they are not the riddle and the untying of the riddle they are nothing, If they are not just as close as they are distant they are nothing. This is the grass that grows wherever the land is and the water is, This the common air that bathes the globe. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#age

This autumn- why am I growing old? bird disappearing among clouds. ↗

— Matsuo Bashō

#life #poetry #life

Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such. ↗

— Peter Davison

#because #every #find #good #i

It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose. ↗

— Peter Davison

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