top of page
.png){kind=small}
"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
Standard
Customized
More
"A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig."
Author Name
Personal Development
"He cleared his throat and held up one hand dramatically."Green grass breaks through snow. Artemis pleads for my help. He grinned at us, waiting for applause. "That last line was four syllables. Artemis said. Apollo frowned. "Was it? "No, no, that's six syllable, hhhm. He started muttering to himself. That's five syllables! He bowed, looking very pleased with himself."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Don't you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ..."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."
Fact
"To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all."
Manners
"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."
Home
"A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times."
Man
"In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster."
American
"The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks."
Age
"If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like."
Politics
"The blind date that has stood you up: your life."
Life
"I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose."
Man
"I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry."
Poetry
bottom of page