#poetry

‎"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing ↗

— Mariam Kobras

#dreams #novels #poetry #publishing #writing

Please lift your snowy skies off my soul - Your diamond dreams slice through my veins ↗

— Else Lasker-Schüler

#poetry #soul #dreams

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#choose #conscious #decide #determination #different

Unlike the bough that shook off her dead leaves violently like a wet terrier, unlike the beating of the butterfly, her wings, against the cocoon, some dreams never made a move. ↗

— V.S. Atbay

#dreams

Always dream big and dare to believe! ↗

— Melinda Rabin

#dragons #poetry #dreams

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart. ↗

— Helen Keller

#poetry #education

I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#death

I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#death-and-dying #love #poetry #death

It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#poetry #revenge #death

The red washing down the bathtub can't change the color of the sea at all. ↗

— Derrick C. Brown

#depression #poem #poetry #suicide #change