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poetry published volume wrote
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. Tony Buzan
poetry despair born
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. Jose Bergamin
poetry lines serious
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines. Jonathan Swift
poetry has-beens
My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it. Henry David Thoreau
poetry mastery logic
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. James Russell Lowell
poetry would-be world
If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger. Muriel Rukeyser
poetry poetic breathe
Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
poetry letters jest
I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest. Ovid
poetry phrases meter
ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.... Nikki Giovanni
sorrow delight world
In the time of your life, live - so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed...In the time of your life, live - so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it. William Saroyan
sorrow tears littles
Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears. Samuel Johnson
sorrow pleasure
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. Percy Bysshe Shelley
sorrow mankind possession
Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time. Louis Sullivan
sorrow may causes
I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain. John Henry Newman
sorrow speak
Great sorrows cannot speak. John Donne
sorrow divine exile
From love one can only escape at the price of life itself; and no lessening of sorrow is worth exile from that stream of all things human and divine. Freya Stark
sorrow alas
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
sorrow mirth heroic
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience. John Cage