#poetry

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #desire #desires #dreams #expectations

Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Oliver, for he was the type who would never enjoy hot-air balloons, Van Morrison songs, or mess, whether from orgasm or otherwise. But who was she to be dreaming about mess today? ↗

— Andrea Kayne Kaufman

#music #ocd #oxford #poetry #redemptive

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. ↗

— Robert Frost

#emotion #found #thought #words

I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. ↗

— Zona Gale

#digestion #good #good digestion #i #know

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry. ↗

— Mark Knopfler

#music #poetry #tends #vehicle

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#hungarian #literature #lyric #poetry #wonderful

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#history #hobbies #interests #language #maker

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. ↗

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

#before #culture #grace #literature #poetry

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#chords #compared #conversation #love #may

I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty. ↗

— Louise Jameson

#career #colin #evenings #fun #hopefully