#poetry

A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#gardening #landscape #nature #poetry #education

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ↗

— Mary Oliver

#life

What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms. ↗

— Kobayashi Issa

#cherry-blossoms #haiku #japan #life #poetry

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#poetry #life

Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life? ↗

— Mary Oliver

#life

I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#love #poetry #share #life

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depths of some devine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. ↗

— Alfred Tennyson

#memories #poetry #sadness #life

I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humanity #life #perfection #poetry #relationships

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#poetry #life

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#longfellow #poetry #sadness #life