#poetry

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat. ↗

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#dream #poetry #art

Love could never be forever only for a lifetime, only God can love eternally. ↗

— Jeannette Scollard

#poetry #love

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

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However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. ↗

— James Schuyler

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In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

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I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#poetry #love

In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. ↗

— Archie Shepp

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You see another who looks thirsty. Walking over to them, you nudge them on the back. They look at you, and you gesture toward the lake with your head. You and the other walk over there, and you are content and you are happy. You are home. ↗

— Amanda Leigh

#home

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket. ↗

— Charles Simic

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