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“For those who sense and comprehend,They know that heaven is at hand;The river blue which stream and stream,It has the pictures of my dream.”
“Your face expresses a simple majesty,Your look is that of a captive princess,Your lips have a slight smile andThis shows your glory of being a woman.”
“Daisy, simple and discreet flower,That earned the heart of this poet.”
“Loneliness why do you accompany me if I wish to be alone?”
“Little,It is a small measureBut can you measure love?”
“My poetry is the highest valuable thing I have to make you smile...”
“Poetry is born of a lack of love, born of a crazy and impossible passion...”
“I feel like shredded paper thrown to the wind, each poet took a piece of me and wrote a word or phrase...”
“Im on a long journey around and through myself...”
“I was overcome by the simplicity of the brook and abandoned my envy and desire for bravery, and simply prayed: Lord, give me the quietness of the waters of this little brook and like it I will amal...”
“The important thing in life is to be.”
“A versifiers poem is born by the sound”
“poetry is notexcept in a very limited sensea form of self-expression. Who on earth supposes that the pearl expresses the oyster?”
“Nails that claw by a beautiful mind.A pretty face can leave you blind - Poem 'Small Pain' from 'The B Word: The B in LBGTQ Poetry'.”
“The fatal problem with poetry: poems.”
“Poetry": What kind of art assumes the dislike of its audience and what kind of artist aligns herself with that dislike, even encourages it? An art hated from without and within.”
“It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.”
“I hide myself behind, a cloud of smoke; the smoke screen varies, dependent on the variable. The variable consists of: stress, anguish, boredom, madness, anger, depression, apathy, negativity, sex, ...”
“[poems are] crystals deposited after the effervescent contact of the spirit with reality.(cristaux deposes apres l'effervescent contact de l'esprit avec la realite)”
“I turn to Willa Cathers quote: Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great...”
