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Different lifestory but with a same lovestory They mey once by serendipity Smiled at each other but totally stranger


patrick cruz


#poetry-love #art

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.


Ishmael Reed


#imagination #labor #manual #manual labor #poetry

To whom shall I offer this book, young and sprightly, Neat, polished, wide-margined, and finished politely? To you, my Cornelius, whose learning pedantic, Has dared to set forth in three volumes gigantic The history of ages—ye gods, what a labor!— And still to enjoy the small wit of a neighbor. A man who can be light and learned at once, sir, By life's subtle logic is far from a dunce, sir. So take my small book—if it meet with your favor. The passing of years cannot dull its sweet savor.


Catullus


#poetry #age

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.


Salman Rushdie


#frauds #going #name #poet #point

I hope for a light grief in old age. I was born in Rome and it has returned to me. My autumn was a kind of she-wolf, And August - the month of Caesars - smiled at me.


Osip Mandel'shtam


#age

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#idealistic #life #ones #poetry #treated

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.


Michael Joseph Oakeshott


#dream #poetry #art

Love could never be forever only for a lifetime, only God can love eternally.


Jeannette Scollard


#poetry #love

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.


Adrienne Rich


#poets #poets-on-poetry #women-poets #art

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.


James Schuyler


#however #much #poem #prose #reduced






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