#poetry

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#poetry #life

The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well. ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #philosophical #poetry #poets #wisdom

It seems only yesterday I used to believe there was nothing under my skin but light. If you cut me I could shine. But now when I fall upon the sidewalks of life, I skin my knees. I bleed. ↗

— Billy Collins

#growing-up #poetry #life

We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor. ↗

— Robert Lowell

#life

Poetry doesn’t pay. But I need it. And so do you. ↗

— Cory Basil

#meaning #meaning-of-life #poetry #life

You are not worthless. Even if you've been called that your entire life. ↗

— Kevin Walker

#worth #worthless #life

I watched the spinning stars, grateful, sad and proud, as only a man who has outlived his destiny and realizes he might yet forge himself another, can be. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#life #longing #poetry #pride #sense-of-wonder

I can blend words easily with my pen, and show concepts from deep within. Yet not everyone gets the message I send. So why do I even let these words begin? Maybe they will soak in one day at the right time. When the readers on a new path to find. So for now I'll continue to drop ink and not worry about what other people think. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#philosophy #philosophy-of-life #poetry #reading #life

I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#rainer-maria-rilke #life

It is ferocious, life, but it must eat . . . ↗

— Lucia Perillo

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