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#poetry

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To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still. ↗


— William Shakespeare


#sonnet- #beauty

beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part. ↗


— William Carlos Williams


#poetry #reality #beauty

July 4th fireworks exhale over the Hudson sadly. It is beautiful that they have to disappear. It's like the time you said I love you madly. That was an hour ago. It's been a fervent year. ↗


— Frederick Seidel


#love #poetry #beauty

The Beats and the Pranksters showed us different ways of opting out of society. They were both the personification of countercultural movements. The Beats were trying to change literature, and the Pranksters were trying to change the people and the country. Kesey, in fact, was his own cultural revolution, striving to keep the upbeat, freedom-loving spirit of America alive. ↗


— Sterling Lord


#beat-poetry #ken-kesey #pranksters #change

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do. ↗


— Stephen Sondheim


#lyricists #music #poetry #music

Let me live my final days whole. Let my memory remain that I might know love's face. Life don't unwrap me to be fed to scavengers. I want to escape into light - not exist in darkness. ↗


— Susie Clevenger


#death #life #light #living #love

Hungry for beautiful words, the fox comes rooting around in the hedge, almost too close to the fire. He reads my mind with one glance and is gone. All my poetry is now trotting around the bushes inside him, maybe some day to be partly eaten or left to rot. He understands being alive for as long as he can be, and does not worry about why, or what might happen afterwards. ↗


— Jay Woodman


#death #fire #fox #hunger #hungry

...I will find once again the light of your beauty - your colored windows in the night... ↗


— John Geddes


#light #love #love-lost #poetry-quotes #beauty

if i or anybody don't know where it her his my next meal's coming from i say to hell with that that doesn't matter (and if he she it or everybody gets a bellyful without lifting my finger i say to hell with that i say that doesn't matter) but if somebody or you are beautiful or deep or generous what i say is whistle that sing that yell that spell that out big (bigger than cosmic rays w ar earthquakes famine or the ex prince of whoses diving into a whatses to rescue miss nobody's probably handbag) because i say that's not swell (get me) babe not (understand me) lousy kid that's something else my sweet (i feel that's true) ↗


— E.E. Cummings


#beauty

Beauty crowds me till I die, Beauty, mercy have on me! But if I expire today, Let it be in sight of thee ↗


— Emily Dickinson


#poetry #beauty






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