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#poetry

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The cliche is dead poetry.


Gerald Brenan


#dead #poetry

There is only beauty / and it has only one perfect expression / poetry. All the rest is a lie /except for those who live by the body, love, and, that love of the mind, friendship. For me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because its sensual delight falls back deliciously in my soul.


Stéphane Mallarmé


#beauty

It came to me on a winter day. Life so full and rich will fade. Though I wish it were not so, One cannot run from an expected fate. And as a steady gust of wind fell upon my face, It was then when I felt a chill and thus did then know; Though I wish it were not true, Life beautiful and sweet shall ripe and pass today. As a petal falls from a rose so shall she blossom and shed; Catching each falling tear, I will not leave a word unsaid.


Lee Argus


#beauty

They mutilate they torment each other with silences with words as if they had another life to live they do so as if they had forgotten that their bodies are inclined to death that the insides of men easily break down ruthless with each other they are weaker than plants and animals they can be killed by a word by a smile by a look


Tadeusz Różewicz


#death

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.


John Cage


#nothing #possess #realize #soon

A Parting Guest What delightful hosts are they— Life and Love! Lingeringly I turn away, This late hour, yet glad enough They have not withheld from me Their high hospitality. So, with face lit with delight And all gratitude, I stay Yet to press their hands and say, Thanks.—So fine a time! Good night.


James Whitcomb Riley


#funeral #poetry #death

Robots are like Mars: they need girls. Boys won't do; the memesoup is all wrong. They stomp when they should kiss and they're none too keen on having things shoved inside them... It's not a robot until you put a girl inside. Sometimes I feel like that. A junkyard the Company forgot to put a girl in.


Catherynne M. Valente


#girls #industry #life #poetry #relationships

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.


Gilbert K. Chesterton


#been #cheese #mysteriously #poets #silent

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.


Bruce Cockburn


#around #composing #hadn #i #loved

The poet doesn't invent. He listens.


Jean Cocteau


#invent #listens #poet






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