“You are the beautiful half of a golden hurt.” LoveRomancePoetrySorrowHeartbreakHeartacheBittersweetSorrowfulAmerican Poets Author:Gwendolyn Brooks
“I belong to the whole world but America will always be my home country, because she adopted me and honored me as a son, when the country I was born in kicked me around like garbage.” HumanismHumanitarianAmericanAmerican LiteratureHome CountryLand Of LibertyAmerican WritersAmerican PoetsAmerican AuthorsAmerican Poet Book:Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World Source: Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World
“The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.” DiversityMulticulturalismWriters And WritingAmericansBlack History MonthPoets And PoetryContemporary PoetryMulticulturalismoAmerican IdentityNational Poetry MonthWorld Poetry DayNational History DayPoem In Your Pocket DayAmerican PoetsContemporary PoetsContemporary Authors Book:The American Poet Who Went Home Again Source: The American Poet Who Went Home Again
“during my worst times on the park benches in the jails or living with whores I always had this certain contentment- I wouldn't call it happiness- it was more of an inner balance that settled for whatever was occuring and it helped in the factories and when relationships went wrong with the girls. it helped through the wars and the hangovers the backalley fights the hospitals. to awaken in a cheap room in a strange city and pull up the shade- this was the craziest kind of contentment and to walk across the floor to an old dresser with a cracked mirror- see myself, ugly, grinning at it all. what matters most is how well you walk through the fire.” PoetryCharles BukowskiAmerican Poets Author:Charles Bukowski