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fc3bb2f It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal. poets romance E.M. Forster
aa278eb "When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety. When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid, promised walks never taken. Great souls die and our reality, bound to them, takes leave of us. Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened. Our minds, formed and informed by their radiance, fall away. We are not so much maddened as reduced to the unutterable ignorance of dark, cold caves. And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. death i-shall-not-be-moved life maya-angelou peace poem poems poet poetry poets soul souls trees when-great-trees-fall writers writing Maya Angelou
d3d498a Her in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn--that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness--that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling. fall nature pleasure poets seasons walking Jane Austen
9a0ea41 Blessed are the weird people art creative inspirational poets writers writing-life Jacob Nordby
f2986d3 Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. insanity logic-reason poets G.K. Chesterton
763a168 Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing, sweet-moaning, physical but not necessarily coital, relation with a girl-child, are innocuous, inadequate, passive, timid strangers who merely ask the community to allow them to pursue their practically harmless, so-called aberrant behavior, their little hot wet private acts of sexual deviation without the police and society cracking down upon them. We are not sex fiends! We do not rape as good soldiers do. We are unhappy, mild, dog-eyed gentlemen, sufficiently well integrated to control our urge in the presence of adults, but ready to give years and years of life for one chance to touch a nymphet. Emphatically, no killers are we. Poets never kill. pedophilia poets soldiers Vladimir Nabokov
6c09794 The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes. apple apples april auden autumn burns byron coffee de-la-mare fall hart-crane insomnia keats longfellow may milton morris night nocturnal poetry poets pope schiller season seasons september shelley spender spring tea tennyson winter wordsworth writers writing Helen Bevington
149dcb0 Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry. creativity poetry poets reality writers writing Julian Barnes
37c3489 A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people. funny misanthropy philosophy poets schopenhauer Arthur Schopenhauer
e2ea590 Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets. poets sages saints George Eliot
7f56ff1 Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead. poet poetry poetry-quotes poets Federico García Lorca
826d7ea I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order. poets Mary Karr
0be09be Battle for the sake of honor may be a fine thing for bards to sing of, but it is no way to preserve one's homeland homeland poets sing war Jacqueline Carey
cdc1eb6 What liars poets and everybody were! They made one think one wanted sentiment. When what one supremely wanted was this piercing, consuming, rather awful sensuality. desire lady-chatterley-s-lover poets sentiment sex D.H. Lawrence
5efb539 Men of dreams, the lovers and the poets, are better in most things than the men of my sort; the men of intellect. You take your being from your mothers. You live to the full: it is given you to love with your whole strength, to know and taste the whole of life. We thinkers, though often we seem to rule you, cannot live with half your joy and full reality. Ours is a thin and arid life, but the fullness of being is yours; yours the sap of the fruit, the garden of lovers, the joyous pleasaunces of beauty. Your home is the earth, ours the idea of it. Your danger is to be drowned in the world of sense, ours to gasp for breath in airless space. You are a poet, I a thinker. You sleep on your mother's breast, I watch in the wilderness. On me there shines the sun; on you the moon with all the stars. Your dreams are all of girls, mine of boys-- men-of-dreams narziss poets thinkers Hermann Hesse
fe1b286 Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that ascertained the mechanical principles of 'Virtual Velocity,' the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that ascertained the true position of the earth and accounted for all celestial phenomena; that discovered his three laws--discoveries of such importance that the 8th of May, 1618, may be called the birth-day of modern science; that gave to the world the Method of Fluxions, the Theory of Universal Gravitation, and the Decomposition of Light; that , , , and , almost completed the science of mathematics; that all the discoveries in optics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and chemistry, the experiments, discoveries, and inventions of , , and , of , and and of all the pioneers of progress--that all this was accomplished by uninspired men, while the writer of the Pentateuch was directed and inspired by an infinite God? Is it possible that the codes of China, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome were made by man, and that the laws recorded in the Pentateuch were alone given by God? Is it possible that and , , and , and , and all the poets of the world, and all their wondrous tragedies and songs are but the work of men, while no intelligence except the infinite God could be the author of the Pentateuch? Is it possible that of all the books that crowd the libraries of the world, the books of science, fiction, history and song, that all save only one, have been produced by man? Is it possible that of all these, the bible only is the work of God? alessandro-volta benjamin-franklin beranger bible bonaventura-cavalieri bonaventura-francesco-cavalieri books burns cavalieri chemistry china copernicus descartes discoveries egypt euclid experiments fiction franklin fulton galileo galileo-galilei galvani goethe gottfried-leibniz gottfried-von-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-von-leibniz greece hydrostatics india inspiration intelligence inventions isaac-newton james-watt johann-von-goethe johann-wolfgang-von-goethe johannes-kepler kepler laws-of-motion leibniz libraries light luigi-aloisio-galvani luigi-galvani math mathematics morse newton nicolaus-copernicus optics pentateuch pierre-jean-de-béranger pioneers pneumatics poets progress rene-descartes richard-trevithick robert-burns robert-fulton rome samuel-finley-breese-morse samuel-morse schiller science shakespeare songs the-bible theory-of-gravity theory-of-universal-gravitation tragedy trevethick volta watt william-shakespeare writer Æschylus Robert G. Ingersoll
e6cf360 When one does something, one must do it wholly and well. Those bastard existences where you sell suet all day and write poetry at night are made for mediocre minds - like those horses that are equally good for saddle and carriage, the worst kind, that can neither jump a ditch nor pull a plow. poets work writers writing Gustave Flaubert
e250ebe It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such a portent as a respectable poet. You say you are a poet of law; I say you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not comets and earthquakes on the night you appeared in this garden. comets cruel-colors earthquakes garden night poets respectable G.K. Chesterton
58a1e10 That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them poets writers writing George Bernard Shaw
9545411 Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets. poets Peter S. Beagle
171138f I'd had a little feeling of destiny. Because, you see, what I mean about affinities is true from friendships down to even the accidental glance at someone on the street-there's always a definite reason somewhere. I think even the poets would agree with me. fate friendship patricia-highsmith poets red-string-of-fate relationships the-price-of-salt Patricia Highsmith
4ab8943 "Maybe I just didn't want it to be Benny because he really loves her, and if I was wrong about that, it'd be depressing. Who wants to be depressed?" "Poets," Eve decided. "You have to think they must." "Okay, other than poets." friends humor love poets J.D. Robb
cee5e86 Miltons were, on the whole, the most enthusiastic poet followers. A flick through the London telephone directory would yield about four thousand John Miltons, two thousand William Blakes, a thousand or so Samuel Colleridges, five hundred Percy Shelleys, the same of Wordsworth and Keats, and a handful of Drydens. Such mass name-changing could have problems in law enforcement. Following an incident in a pub where the assailant, victim, witness, landlord, arresting officer and judge had all been called Alfred Tennyson, a law had been passed compelling each namesake to carry a registration number tattooed behind the ear. It hadn't been well received--few really practical law-enforcement measures ever are. law-enforcement names poets Jasper Fforde
9224d1b Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions. To see clearly is to not act. illusions philosophers poets truth Fernando Pessoa
586ad29 Le Poete est semblable au prince des nuees Qui hante la tempete et se rit de l'archer; Exile sur le sol au milieu des huees, Ses ailes de geant l'empechent de marcher. poets literature mundane mundane-reality poetry Charles Baudelaire
6bafdbe "Feminine psychology is admittedly odd, sir. The poet Pope..." "Never mind about the poet Pope, Jeeves." "No, sir." bertie-wooster humor jeeves jeeves-and-wooster poets P.G. Wodehouse
f62aa0e The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it. artists ideas life poets reality walden Henry David Thoreau
bd9ae74 One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways. poets Helen Vendler
b05bb0a Si la liberacion no esta dentro de mi, no esta, para mi, en ninguna parte. freedom poetry poets self-esteem Fernando Pessoa
762ac60 With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady's album - and this is always a gallant thing to do, whatever you may say. poets Gustave Flaubert
0877232 It is as if the soul of the continent is weeping. Why does it weep? It weeps for the bones of the buffalo. It weeps for magic that has been forgotten. It weeps for the decline of poets. It weeps for the black people who think like white people. It weeps for the Indians who think like settlers. It weeps for the children who think like adults. It weeps for the free who think like prisoners. Most of all, it weeps for the cowgirls who think like cowboys. feminism modern-atrocities poets Tom Robbins
ca169f9 I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima hemingway humor poets terza-rima Ernest Hemingway
e16425f Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it. poets Helen Vendler
6ebda76 Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket. 'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem. identity karen-tei-yamashita poems poet poetry poets self stories tropic-of-orange Karen Tei Yamashita
33eb27d I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets. peter-kreeft philosophy poetry poets sea water Peter Kreeft
47e9030 "What was it Like?" "What was what like?" he said, although he knew. "Quick, I imagine. But you must have perceived something. A split second of vanishing awareness. A grasping at a shrinking light." "It was like being fucked in the brain." lexicon poets Max Barry
426c597 The birds are in their trees, the toast is in the toaster, and the poets are at their windows. [...] The proofreaders are playing the ping-pong game of proofreading, glancing back and forth from page to page, the chefs are dicing celery and potatoes, and the poets are at their windows because it is their job for which they are paid nothing every Friday afternoon. poets writing Billy Collins
58d585d The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read the. poets Henry David Thoreau
75a0eec Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had been right when he repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager so lucid or dangerous, than a poet. poetry poets Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
2f939f6 For the novelist or poet, for the scientist or artist, the question is not do ideas come from, the question is how they come. The is the mystery. The how is fragile. artists books creativity ideas inspiration novelists poems poets science scientists E.L. Konigsburg
f85e10e "You either a poet or a homosexual." "Oh, shit, that's fucked up. Why can't I be both?" homosexuals poetry poets Paul Beatty
1df0a05 Ah gospodine! - reci ce sinovica; - naredite vi mirne duse da se i te knjige spale kao i druge, jer dok moj gospodar stric ozdravi od viteske bolesti, ne bi bilo cudo da njega, ako on uscita te knjige, spopadne zelja da se prometne u pastira i krene po sumama i livadama svirajuci i pjevajuci; ili, sto je jos gore, da postane pjesnik, a to je, kako vele, neizljeciva i prijelazna bolest. don-quixote-quotes funny-quotes pjesnici poets Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
bf83c84 "When I reached the vestibule of my apartment building, the campus police closed in on me. I heard Professor Edelstein shout, it's okay, he's a poet. Matter of fact, the best black ... the best poet writing today." The cops instantly backed off. I was protected by poetic immunity. I had permission to act crazy." poetry poets Paul Beatty
f4e2165 The older poets were Ethelbert Miller, Kenneth Carroll, Brian Gilmore. It is important that I tell you their names, that you know that I have never achieved anything alone. poetry poets ta-nehisi-coates-quote theory Ta-Nehisi Coates
debc5e3 People wonder at the romantic lives of poets and artists, but they should rather wonder at their gift of expression. The occurrences which pass unnoticed in the life of the average man in the existence of a writer of talent are profoundly interesting. It is the man they happen to that makes their significance. authors experiences expression maugham poets w-somerset-maugham writer writing W. Somerset Maugham
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