Tag: poetry quotes
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September 29, 2008 09:23 PM EDT --
In the spirit of Autumn, I've compiled some seasonal quotes and poetry. Enjoy!
"October gave a party. The leaves by hundreds came - the Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, and leaves . . .
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November 04, 2009 01:32 AM EST --
Emerson's essay was first published in 1844. Many think that Walt Whitman fulfilled Emerson's call for an American poet in the 1800's, and that Robert Frost fulfilled in the 1900's...
Theologians . . .
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January 08, 2009 05:52 PM EST --
Kimberly Ripley's current and excellent "Gather Essentials" article, in which she told of the life of Robert Frost, inspired me to hunt for some of his quotes about poetry. . . .
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April 16, 2009 05:58 PM EDT --
If poetry breaks its covenant with truth and justice, it has failed. --Seamus Heaney, The Sunday Tribune , 7 April 1996
It's important that it's clear that the poet is not inventing the value . . .
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July 09, 2009 07:13 PM EDT --
How do work and poetry fit together in your life? Is it a fruitful collaboration or discouraging? Here some poets express their thoughts on the subject...
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September 15, 2007 01:06 AM EDT --
this is a quote that I read and I thought of my gather friends,,
Have a great day
"some people come into our lives and quickly go,
some stay and leave footprints on our heart.
And . . .
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April 22, 2008 03:39 AM EDT --
I woke up this morning with the two last lines of this poem going through my mind. After some searching, I found the poem....
Invocation
There is a poem on the way,
There is a poem all . . .
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April 16, 2009 10:03 PM EDT --
(In hindi)
Aisee Vani Boliye, Mun Ka Aapa Khoye
Apna Tan Sheetal Kare, Auran Ko Sukh Hoye
(Translation)
Speak such words, sans ego's ploy
Body remains . . .
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July 20, 2008 08:52 PM EDT --
* the harder you work, the luckier you get.
* treat failure as practice shots.
* never mistake a clearview for a short distance.
* by failing to plan, you plan to fail.
* there are no shortcuts . . .
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June 12, 2008 01:23 AM EDT --
I hope you will enjoy these quotes and poems by one of my favorite poets.....
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I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
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May 30, 2008 11:36 PM EDT --
I got this the other day and found it amusing. It's a poem made up of various misstatements by George W. Bush. And, to make sure it's legit, I checked it on Snopes.com and - sure enough . . .
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April 17, 2008 12:35 AM EDT --
I write my poems on scraps of paper because I want to carry them in my address book. I'm likely to read them at a moment's notice.
--Gwendolyn Brooks
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October 27, 2008 11:06 PM EDT --
Thanks are due to Kathryn Esplin and Nancy L. for reminding us that it is Sylvia Plath's birthday today (October 27th, as I write this). Kathryn described her life, and Nancy imbedded a youtube . . .
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November 15, 2008 01:43 PM EST --
Welcome to Poetry Quotes.......today's featured poet is Mary Karr. Karr's first book of poetry, Viper Rum , knocked me out with its direct verse and her essay on poetics. Though she considers . . .
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June 15, 2009 11:53 AM EDT --
Poetry is an antidote to the poison-level at which we often consent to live. --Penelope Shuttle
Poetry has to a large degree resumed its 19th-century role as a comfort and consolation, a retreat from . . .
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October 17, 2008 02:10 AM EDT --
I hope you will enjoy these quotes from Maxine Kumin about her writing process (except for the last ones)...
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I tend to wait for a poem to come to me. I feel that it is at . . .
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August 15, 2009 03:54 PM EDT --
Reading from Khalil Gibran in the month of August - August 15th
''And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God"
Yesterday and Work chapter VII . . .
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February 01, 2008 11:12 PM EST --
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, . . .
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March 27, 2009 07:35 PM EDT --
Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express. . . .
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May 04, 2008 05:54 PM EDT --
My business is words. Words are like labels,
or coins, or better, like swarming bees.
I confess I am only broken by the sources of things;
as if words were counted like dead bees in the attic, . . .
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