"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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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

Poetry, Life, Language, Expression

"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Poetry, Perspective, Optimism, Art

"There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Poetry, Wisdom, Truth, Power, Inspirational

"I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Love, Peace, Hope, Happiness

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

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Poetry, Words

"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Poetry, Geometry

"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Poetry,

"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Poetry, Development, Drama, State

"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

"Each day before the end of eveshe sought her lover, nor would him leave,until the stars were dimmed, and daycame glimmering eastward silver-grey.Then trembling-veiled she would appear,and dance before him, half in fear;there flitting just before his feetshe gently chid with laughter sweet:'Come! dance now, Beren, dance with me!For fain thy dancing I would see!"

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Poetry, Strength, Happiness, Love, Peace

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"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

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"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."

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"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."

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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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"Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense."

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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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"America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still."

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"A tough life needs a tough language-and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers-a language powerful enough to say how it is."

"I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry and I think it's nicer' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed 'to look at it through poetry."

"There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable."

"I thought all the trees were whispering to each other, passing news and plots along in an unintelligible language; and the branches swayed and groped without any wind. They do say the trees do actually move, and can surround strangers and hem them."

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

"Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry."

"For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."

"The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."

"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."

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"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

"I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance."

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

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

"I imagine that yes is the only living thing."

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."

"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."

"Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense."

"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."

"America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still."