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The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

—Clifton Fadiman

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There is the staircase,there is the sun.There is the kitchen,the plate with toast and strawberry jam,your subterfuge,your ordinary mirage.You stand red-handed.You want to wash yourself in earth, in rocks and grassWhat are you supposed to...

—Margaret Atwood

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LossPoetry
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Dream by making and make by dreaming.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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….my sacred landscape is the foothills of the stars – I go there often to sleep …

—John Geddes

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We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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Fire will run like poetry through your blood.

—Rachel Neumeier

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Courage is more important than to be deceived by shallow victory waiting for a delayed defeat.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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RequiescatTread lightly, she is nearUnder the snow,Speak gently, she can hearThe daisies grow.All her bright golden hairTarnished with rust,She that was young and fairFallen to dust.Lily-like, white as snow,She hardly knewShe was a woman, soSweetly...

—Oscar Wilde

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What does infinity mean to you? Are you not infinity and yourself?

—Dejan Stojanovic

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His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a synaesthetic multi-media event, and this was the ground of all perception before it...

—Peter Redgrove

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To understand possible means to understand impossible.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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Sometimes those we love break us to bind us whole within the transition.

—Robert M.

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To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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You’re not a bad person, you’re just a little bit different and I’m a sucker for that.

—Robert M.

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MarginaliaSometimes the notes are ferocious,skirmishes against the authorraging along the borders of every pagein tiny black script.If I could just get my hands on you,Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O’Brien,they seem to say,I would bolt the...

—Billy Collins

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There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawaterbegs the pearl to break its shell.and the lily, how passionatelyit needs some wild darling! Atnight, I open...

—Rumi

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Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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A whiff of fresh mintthat tastes like strawberry pie.Your kisses tempt me.

—Richelle E.

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All those big words produce disgust today.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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Most of the poems I write take 5 minutes, but the words can give a lifetime of relief. Many people that have read my book say it helped them with their grief.

—Stanley Victor

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Sun is a hearthstone, a merry-go-round of extinguished hearthstones.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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I think can sit here for hours,Arguing with the world as to why I can’t give up,Tell everyone around me what a blessing you are,Laugh at all the times that you’ve brought sun into my...

—Tanzy Sayadi

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Conditional love. Far from Gods original love.

—Delano Johnson

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You smile and draw me near and whisper, “Do as dreamers do.”I lean to you and whisper in your ear, “I cannot dream tonight my Dear. For it is you.

—Shaun Hick

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come back so i can say yes this time do it again now that i know what to call what you didthis time i’ll be ready i like it rough now and i’m done with...

—Daphne Gottlieb

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Sharing one umbrella,We have to hold each other,Round the waist to keep together,You ask me why I’m smiling-It’s because I’m thinking,I want it to rain forever.

—Vicki Feaver

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You scour these Chinatowns of the mind, translating themlike sutras Xuan Zhang fetched from India, testing waysreturn might be possible against these homesick inventions, trace the traveller’s alien steps across borders, and in between discover...

—Boey Kim

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Hunger allows no choiceTo the citizen or the police;We must love one another or die.

—W.H. Auden

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The first rose on my rose-tree Budded, bloomed, and shattered, During sad days when to me Nothing mattered. Grief of grief has drained me clean; Still it seems a pity No one saw,—it must have...

—Edna St. Vincent Millay

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UtteranceSitting over wordsVery late I have heard a kind of whispered sighingNot farLike a night wind in pines or like the sea in the darkThe echo of everything that has everBeen spokenStill spinning its one...

—W.S. Merwin

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The Waves is an extraordinary achievement … It is trembling on the edge. A little less – and it would lose its poetry. A little more – and it would be over into the abyss,...

—E.M. Forster

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The comedy of the wicked,Is the tragedy of the saint;But the saint’s comedy,Is the wicked’s remedy.

—Stephan Attia

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What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

—Gerard Manley

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I take this continent with me into the grave.

—Ray Bradbury

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Alles wat ik van het leven weet maakte ik me buiten de muren van de school eigen, en zodra ik me binnen die muren bevond leek het of ik achterwaarts leefde.

—Gerrit Komrij

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The exceeding brightness of this early sunMakes me conceive how dark I have become.

—Wallace Stevens

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RaptureI can feel she has got out of bed.That means it is seven a.m.I have been lying with eyes shut,thinking, or possibly dreaming,of how she might look if, at breakfast,I spoke about the hidden place...

—Galway Kinnell

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Poetry is a finikin thing of airThat lives uncertainly and not for longYet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.

—Wallace Stevens

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I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

—Siri Hustvedt

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Oh I know it’s cliché but yeah they say that great men make it in-To places few others who even do take the risk’ve ever been

—Criss Jami

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Out of a hundred people:Those who always know better- 52Doubting every step- all the restGlad to lend a hand if it doesn’t take too long- as high as 49Always good, because they can’t be otherwise-...

—Wislawa Szymborska

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A schoolgirl forbidden from school is like a bird forbidden from the sky.

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Come away, O human child!To the waters and the wildWith a faery, hand in hand,For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.

—W.B. Yeats

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If you cannot be a sun that illuminates the light, be a moon that never tires of reflecting the light.

—Subhan Zein

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To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is to carry the cross of the Son of Man, to suffer...

—Dan Simmons

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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep....

—Wilfred Owen

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DeathPoetryWar
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Song of myselfSmile O voluptuous cool-breath’d earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset–earth of the mountains misty-topt! Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!...

—Walt Whitman

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EarthPoetrySmile
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E andando nel sole che abbagliasentire con triste meravigliacom’è tutta la vita e il suo travaglioin questo seguitare una muragliache ha in cima cocci aguzzi di bottiglia.

—Eugenio Montale

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… For everything precious and pure coming in our lives should be treated likewise.

—Soar

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CareLovePeople
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I believe the visionaries and true reflections of society will be rewarded after their lives. Those being rewarded now are giving the public what it needs now, usually applauding its current state and clearing consciences.

—Hollace M.

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