#poetry

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#bring #find #nowhere #some #unless

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#asking #dance #echo #shadow

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ↗

— John Keats

#almost #appear #highest #his #own

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#appealing #been #call #come #i

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. ↗

— Margaret Walker

#body #collective #comes #deep #irrational

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#between #candidate #distinction #key #only

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry. ↗

— Ben Okri

#begins #circles #come #conscious #cycle

Our age has built itself vast reservoirs of power / formless as the straining energy that it wrests from the earth. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#age

You have shown me a love that cannot be given or taken let us back in the fullness of ourselves a simple kiss now blood and breath both awakened a balanced diet to sustain life and health. ↗

— Saul Williams Said the Shotgun to the head

#diet

Though much is taken, much abides; and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#heroism #poetry #ulysses #age