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Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love. At noon I lay down with my mate. It might have been otherwise. We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks. It might have been otherwise. I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.


Jane Kenyon


#life #poetry #life

Choice, and all its attendant energy, is a characteristic of youth. It is before one chooses that one feels desire and longing without fulfillment, which gives an edge to any artistic endeavor. Galway Kinnell recently said in an interview that a young poet has so many choices but an old poet must simply endure his chosen life.


Mary Ruefle


#poetry #youth #life

Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.' 'What is regret?' 'To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.' 'What is sorrow?' 'To long for the past.' 'What is the highest pleasure?' 'To hear a good story.


Vikram Chandra


#hinduism #pleasure #poetry #sorrow #life

I submitted a poem last night to The New Yorker. They said it can take up to three months to hear back. I got rejected immediately.


Jarod Kintz


#poetry #rejection #life

Keep Moving... Move forward Let go Give in Decide and just Do Progress every day And make one step forward no matter what's in your way Keep moving, till one day you wake up and you're there.


Emma Daley


#poem #poetry #poetry-life #poetry-quotes #life

Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love


Leonard Cohen


#dance #epistemology #knowledge #love #poetry

what does it all come down to, love? love if you like and i like for the reason that i hate people and lean out of this window is love and the reason that i laugh and breathe is, oh love and the reason that i do not fall into this street is love


e. e. cummings


#love

You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all.


Kahlil Gibran


#love #poetry #tolerance #love

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.


Wallace Stevens


#capacity #ideas #images #love #must

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.


Wallace Stevens


#bottom #boy #echoes #familiar #feeling






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