He may be old now, but he is still a hero in their eyes

We sit and talk,quietly, with long lapses of silenceand I am aware of the streamthat has no language, coursingbeneath th — William Carlos Williams, Paterson

when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns — Charles Bukowski

Poetry: the best words in the best order. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. — Criss Jami, Killosophy

their heart grew coldthey let their wings down — Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho

When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream o — W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of languag — Gaston Bachelard

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the — Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

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

$You must burn. Burn higher. Burn for everything you have ever wanted. For everything you have ever lost, for every crack in your heart and every fraction of every irreplaceable moment. Burn high for l — Mia Hollow$

A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enoug — Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew — Robert Browning, Jocoseria

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