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There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.


Jeffrey McDaniel


#life #love #poetry #women #writing

We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it


Billy Joel


#lessons #life #music #poetry #inspirational

When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.


John F. Kennedy


#arrogance #cleanses #concern #corrupts #diversity

You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs.


Rubén Darío


#love #poem #poetry #soul #universe

The simplest metaphors be the dope.


Jay Electronica


#poetry #rap #inspirational

These are the woes of Slaves;/They glare from the abyss;/They cry, from unknown graves,/"We are the Witnesses!


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#henry #henry-wadsworth-longfellow #inspirational #longfellow #poems

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.


Allen Tate


#besides #deal #dreams #great #great deal

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.


Oscar Wilde


#bad #feeling #genuine #springs

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.


Paul Dirac


#how #i #i do #man #opposition

For if my poems have always been about survival--and I believe they have been--then survival too keeps revealing itself as an art of the unexpected.


Jane Cooper


#art






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