#poetry

All my life I have been faithful to love. ↗

— Jaroslav Seifert

#poetry #faith

Don't fall asleep yet. Contrary to popular belief, that's not where dreams get accomplished. ↗

— George Watsky

#dream #dreams #drunk #george-watsky #god

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. ↗

— John Barton

#conversation #entered #inspired #into #other

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. ↗

— John Barton

#desired #effect #had #poetry #reader

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end. ↗

— John Barton

#completely #end #happen #hard #hold

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#get #martyred #poetry #slaves #stopping

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#any #but not without #days #food #go

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#another #give #hate #hatred #instinctive

I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return. ↗

— Ki Longfellow

#heart #love #need #poetry #sacrifice

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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