322 quotes found
“A perfect poem owes its perfection to sounding the voice of the heart and the melodies of the conscience, as well as its ability to reflect the considerations, beliefs, opinions, and horizons of th...”
“The ProdigalDark morning rainMeant to fallOn a prison and a schoolyard,Falling meanwhileOn my mother and her old dog.How slow she shuffles nowIn my fathers Sunday shoes.The dog by her sideTrembling...”
“Every time a poet is about to write, every time the open their mouth to say something, they express their inner world and tell of their own feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and opinions, unless they ar...”
“Poetry is another name for a persons telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and ones own perceptions.”
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
“You must take these poems as mirrors; for you know that the mirror has no form of itself, but rather reflects the face of anyone who looks in it. Just so a poem has no one particular meaning of its...”
“Life, a miracle of nature, an evolved molecule of matter, blossomed in the vast expanse of oceans. Methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water vapor When joined under the radio-active sun, The molecules o...”
“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, they give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior, histories, essays, daily life, & everything else, they bal...”
“Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more pregnant, more insidious, more dazzl...”
“And was it his destined part / Only one moment in his life / To be close to your heart?”
“If you are a dreamer, come sit by my fire. For we have some flax-golden tales to spin; come in! Come in!”
“AmendsRegret lingers, niggles. Yellow lilieson the table, gone brown in the vase.The garden we talk about, endlessly, but never begin, deterred by tough sod.On the edge of the walk, the wheelbarrow...”
“ LIFE ON ITS EDGE''What the title reflects?It says about life's edge''Edge, where life has nothing,nothing to achieve.But wait is there,that it will gonna over in this believe''No power, no strengt...”
“God promised you to give you dreams and visions, see Him as your great dream/vision giver.”
“Create a massive drawing of what God has promised you.”
“Your mind couldn't rest like the other little boys. You looked around and you saw the blanket of fear covered the whole country.”
“Your thoughts were deeper than your mind, your little eyes pierced through the heart of your nation.”
“The beauty of words that heals my soul.”
“Undeniable obsession of words that quickens my spirit.”
“My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer;A-chasing the wild-deer, and following the roe,My heart's in the Highlands wherever I go.”
