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“Sad that there is books that are based on bad events that has happened. But there is books that has been based on really good events. I like to read the ones that are based on both.”
“Poems are the chorus of our lives. the poet sets the words to the music of our souls. Each poem has its own rhythm that drums like a heartbeat.”
“THE WILD ROSE BY WENDELL BERRYSometimes, hidden from me in daily custom and in ritualI live by you unaware, as if by the beating of my heart.Suddenly you flare again in my sightA wild rose at the ...”
“When one does not die for the other, then we are already dead_”
“[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)”
“You should gofrom place to placerecovering the poemsthat have been written for youto which you can affix your signature.Don't discuss these matterswith anyone.Retrieve. Retrieve.When the basket is ...”
“No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ra...”
“When I Read the Book"When I read the book, the biography famous, And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life? And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life? (As if any...”
“I will forever walk alone in a world overflowing with those that will never understand my meaning of Learning to See Im always teaching myself to see beauty in all aspects of reality, yearning to l...”
“Daddy-by Nancy B. BrewerWhen I used to say, speak up you are as good as they, You would just smile and say, let them have their way. When in my foolish youth, I so often disobeyed,He would just smi...”
“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”
“To translate a poem from thinking into English takes all night.”
“To truly understand poetry one must understand themselves from within one’s self.”
“it is to be savored like a seabreeze-whispereddream...in the mysteriousblue minutesbefore dawnlike a secretinfatuation.... like slowlanguorous sipsof green tea... like a lingeringglimpsea self-wrap...”
“Most Like an Arch This MarriageMost like an arch—an entrance which upholds and shores the stone-crush up the air like lace. Mass made idea, and idea held in place. A lock in time. Inside half-heave...”
“Is stuffed, de world, wif feeding girls.”
“One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first.”
“I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.”
“It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.”
“William tell, William tell,Take your arrow, grip it well,There’s the apple– – aim for the middle– –Oh well … you just missed by a little.”
