#poetry

I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from "Mingus at the Showplace"] ↗

— William Matthews

#poetry #teenagers #experience

Country music is the poetry of the American spirit. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#country-music #poetry #spirit #experience

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#mysticism #poetry #reason #serenity #faith

the inlet our friend looks as he did when we first knew him, and until I wake I believe I will die of grief, for I know that this boy grew into a man who was a faithful friend who died. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#memory #poetry #faith

Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#books #dejan-stojanovic #eyesight #faith #literature

We can hear your voice We can hear it through the songs of praise We can hear it through the birds We can hear it through the wind We can hear your voice in our hearts We can hear your voice in our minds We can hear you through everyhing ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

A nation established under God A nation that will only win if we stand together ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

Look upward to him Look upward on our goal Keep your eyes on him Look upward to him ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

Today I want to leave the world I want to leave the pain Leave the heartache I know where it is going I want to see my Savior ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

To be held in his arms I long for that day The da that I get to see more wonderful things ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith