If you can't be the poet, be the poem. — David Carradine
If you can't be the poet, be the poem. — David Carradine
If you can't be the poet, be the poem. — David Carradine
If you can't be the poet, be the poem. — David Carradine
If you can't be the poet, be the poem. — David Carradine
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If you can't be the poet, be the poem.

— David Carradine
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I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart againstThe want of you;Of squeezing it into little inkdrops,And posting it. — Amy Lowell
That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry — poetry is still — Anne Sexton
The lamb misused breeds public strifeAnd yet forgives the butcher's knife. — William Blake
It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay — Dorothy Parker
Resolve, and thou art free. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Flower-de-Luce, and the Masque of Pandora
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. — Christopher Morley
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Wild Dreams of a New Beginning
Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday. — Ted Kooser
Anger's like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart 'til it reaches my outer me — Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
If it ain't a pleasure, it ain't a poem. — William Carlos Williams
Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compass — Wendell Berry, Hannah Coulter
forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day — Virgil, Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6