#poetry

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#community #different #group #high #monica

God is the perfect poet. ↗

— Robert Browning

#god #perfect #poet

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

#down #experienced #healing #hope #i

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#inalienable #logical #picturesque #poetry #sentences

In another land there is glory In another land there is happiness In another land we all get along In another land we will stand with others ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty. ↗

— Gilfillian

#beauty

A teacher will be frustrated if she is only motivated to teach what she has learned. Yet, if she is motivated because of the students, then she will learn from them how to teach. ↗

— Tanya R. Liverman

#educational-system #inspiration #poetry #education

Letting go I can have a firm foundation To honor you And hold you in my heart ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

Poetry is indispensable - if I only knew what for. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#indispensable #knew #only #poetry

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#children #cut #his #knot #life