#poetry

Write to me your most perfect epitaph, or I shall compare a poet to a lecturer. Thou art more Spartan than a ballad monger who makes his living as a Wal-Mart greeter; ↗

— Scott Jonathan Nixon

#art

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry ↗

— Krista Tippett

#heart #humanity #language #poetry #religion

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity. ↗

— George Oppen

#any #beautiful #beautiful thing #clarity #did

Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill. ↗

— May Sarton

#poetry #death

Find the beauty in everyone and everything, everyday! Roxanne Catherine Mapp ↗

— Roxanne Catherine Mapp

#designing-women #immigrant #island #poetry #trinidad-tobago

This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey) ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#country #finding-yourself #inspiring #journey #literature

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#answer #answers #dejan-stojanovic #early-age #literature

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries. ↗

— Theodore Roethke

#poetry #life

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#anticipating #bible #book #called #consider

THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start anything you can't finish— However do not lose faith because you are starved! She loves you she says. Believe it —tomorrow. But today the particulars of poetry that difficult art require your whole attention. ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#art