#poetry

Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give. ↗

— Ted Hughes

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How can the bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing? How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring? ↗

— William Blake

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The aim of writing poetry is to enable readers a little better to enjoy life or a little better to endure it. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#life

Poetry is a life-cherishing force. ↗

— Mary Oliver

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Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry. ↗

— Denise Levertov

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I don't feel strong anymore I feel like falling to my knees. Things aren't the way they were before, They're not the way they're supposed to be. ↗

— Atarah L. Poling

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I held this girl in my arms She wrapped her tiny fingers around mine. It was then that I realized. She was the fusion. The glue. The cement that bound all my pieces together. The piece that seals my puzzle. The piece that completes my life. The element that makes me who I am. Who I was. Who I'll one day be. You, baby girl. You're my final piece. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

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If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time. ↗

— Euripides

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And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter. ↗

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

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