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#poetry

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Either you will be you or you will not be at all.


Dejan Stojanovic


#dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy #poetry

I swear we'd lose our hearts if they weren't with elastic and butterfly pin clasped safely in.


Todd Boss


#father #love #poetry #family

The talked about their messed-up, dysfunctional families, carefully respecting boundaries, never probing too deep in any one sitting. And they always ended up laughing. Even when the subject matter was intense or macabre, Henry’s sick and twisted and often politically incorrect sense of humor was infectious…Gloria laughed more in these first weeks at Oxford then she remembered laughing almost anywhere.


Andrea Kayne Kaufman


#oxford-messed-up #poetry #van-morrison #family

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage


Richard Lovelace


#poetry #freedom

The dawn of a color, blooms with a rose. Telling tales, meanings of vibrant with the red of fire. Loyalty extending like the blue ocean blues. Quality like the orange sunset set with romance and friendship. In hindsight, these are meanings and colors, but the important and honest trait...you gave one to someone you love and they admire it and you.


Alan Ascua


#friendship

A black boy brought Wilson's gin and he sipped it very slowly because he had nothing else to do except to return to his hot and squalid room and read a novel - or a poem. Wilson liked poetry, but he absorbed it secretly, like a drug. The Golden Treasury accompanied him wherever he went, but it was taken at night in small doses - a finger of Longfellow, Macaulay, Mangan: 'Go on to tell how, with genius wasted, Betrayed in friendship, befooled in love...' His taste was romantic. For public exhibition he has his Wallace. He wanted passionately to be indistinguishable on the surface from other men: he wore his moustache like a club tie - it was his highest common factor, but his eyes betrayed him - brown dog's eyes, a setter's eyes, pointing mournfully towards Bond Street.


Graham Greene


#mustache #poetry #reading #friendship

Straight between them ran the pathway, Never grew the grass upon it


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#friends #friendship #love #poetry #relationships

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.


Robert W. Service


#hand #means #mother #poetry #public

one day, when tenderness has become the single rule of the morning,/ I will wake in your arms. perhaps your skin will be overly gorgeous./ and the light will include the impossible understanding of love.


José Luís Peixoto


#love #passion #poetry #inspirational

I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life. It's more important to confirm the least sincere. The clouds get enough attention as it is...


Frank O'Hara


#life






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