#poetry

This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ This is the way the world ends/ Not with a bang but a whimper. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#mortality #poetry #death

It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May Although it fall and die that night; It was the plant and flower of Light. In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be (Ben Jonson) ↗

— Aidan Chambers

#beauty

What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry. ↗

— Laurie Lee

#details #did #draw #eyes #flowers

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#children #grow #grow up #i #i write

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#architecture #been #before #bridge #change

I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#find #i #i can #life #make

One does not become a poet by uttering beautiful words. One becomes a poet by pouring their soul as wine into the Cup of Love. ↗

— Subhan Zein

#philosophy #philosophy-literature #poet #poetry #beauty

We left you there, lonely, Beauty your power, Wisdom your watchman, To hold the clay tower. from 'The Tale of the Tiger Tree ↗

— Vachel Lindsay

#beauty

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. ↗