"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long."

Poetry, Autumn, Rain, Sky, Trees

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"A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long."

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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Poetry, Women

"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Poetry, Death, Peace, Rest, Eternity

"Poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light."

Sanober Khan, Indian Businessman

Poetry, Light, Skin, Expression

"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Poetry, Expression, Identity, Reflection

"Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Peace, Beauty, Truth, Hope

"The crown of literature is poetry."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

Poetry, Literature

"The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Poetry, Nature, Imagery, Observation

"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Poetry, Words

"Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Mourning, Shadow, Loss, Sea

"I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Poetry, Love, Beauty, Memory

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"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."

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"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

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"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."

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"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

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"Be of love a little more careful than of anything."

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"Nothing recedes like progress."

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"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."

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"Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry."

"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."

"Poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light."

"Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems."

"The crown of literature is poetry."

"The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees."

"Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words."

"Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea."

"I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand."

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"I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more."

"To destroy is always the first step in any creation."

"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."

"Kisses are a better fate than wisdom."

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes."

"Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question."

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

"Be of love a little more careful than of anything."

"Nothing recedes like progress."

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."