"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."

Poetry, Songs

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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Poetry, Beauty, Inspirational, Truth, Happiness

"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Poetry, Imagination, Words, Emotion

"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Beauty, Peace, Happiness, Love

"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"The lamp hummed:'Regard the moon,La lune ne garde aucune rancune,She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.She smoothes the hair of the grass.The moon has lost her memory.A washed-out smallpox cracks her face,Her hand twists a paper rose,That smells of dust and old Cologne,She is aloneWith all the old nocturnal smellsThat cross and cross across her brain."The reminiscence comesOf sunless dry geraniumsAnd dust in crevices,Smells of chestnuts in the streets,And female smells in shuttered rooms,And cigarettes in corridorsAnd cocktail smells in bars."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Poetry, Moon, Memory, Night, Nostalgia

"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Poetry, Experience, Truth, Emotion

"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Poetry, Time, Feelings, Being

"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."

Virginia Woolf, British Author

Poetry, Movement, Memory, Time

"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

Poetry, Sound, Art, Expression, Creativity

"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Poetry, Wisdom, Truth, Inspirational, Knowledge

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"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."

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"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."

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"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

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"I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time."

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"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."

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"I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty."

"A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader's mind with the colors of emotion."

"Old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."

"Amore is loveconfessed to you in haiku.Do you love me too?"

"Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."

"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."

"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."

"In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound."

"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."

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"Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing."

"Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death."

"I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it."

"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."

"The grace of God is courtesy."

"It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation."

"All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men."

"From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

"I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time."

"When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly."