#poetry

Writing poetry is a state of free float ↗

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Waktu berjalan ke Barat di waktu pagi hari matahari mengikutiku di belakang. Aku berjalan mengikuti bayang-bayangku sendiri yang memanjang di depan. Aku dan matahari tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang telah menciptakan bayang-bayang, aku dan bayang-bayang tidak bertengkar tentang siapa di antara kami yang harus berjalan di depan. ↗

— Sapardi Djoko Damono

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Lord, you're the only one I can truly confide in without you judging me, or throwing dirt back in my face months later. ↗

— Colishia S. Benjamin

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No thought is a stupid thought, those who are thoughtless are thought of as stupid. ↗

— Nate Spears

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Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: 'Schade, daß die Natur nur einen Menschen aus dir schuf; Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.' ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life. ↗

— William Rose Benet

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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ↗

— James Broughton

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Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something. ↗

— Amy Clampitt

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Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. ↗