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“When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue.”

Men Heart Lasts Moving Dies Poet Tongue

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“There is a wonderful place where flowers grow in colors beyond the words of poets... trees sing with the songs of butterflies. And mythical tigresses look at you with fiery golden eyes... open your heart and feel the colors of magic blooming inside you.”

Feels Looks Heart Eye Song Grows Wonderful Magic Tree Color Poet Flower Golden Butterfly Fiery Blooming Open Your Heart Wonderful Places Golden Eye Tigress

Author:Laurel Burch

“Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.”

Heart Today Havens Danger Poet Refuse Painter Midst

Book:Picasso: style and meaning

Source: Picasso: style and meaning

“The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.”

Years Heart Shows Poetry Fire Blood Tears Poet My Heart Gaps Journal Rhyme Lamps Deliverance Olden Times

Book:The Poems of Bayard Taylor

Source: The Poems of Bayard Taylor

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go.”

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“Most poets, most good poets even, no longer have the heart to write about what is most terrible in the world of the present: the bombs waiting beside the rockets, the hundreds of millions staring into the temporary shelter of their television sets, the decline of the West that seems less a decline than the fall preceding an explosion.”

World Writing Heart Seems Fall Waiting Millions Television Poet Terrible West Staring Bombs Temporary Decline Shelter Explosions Rockets

Author:Randall Jarrell

“The poet should touch our heart by showing his own”

Should Heart Poet

Book:Hours in a Library: Charlotte Brontë. Charles Kingsley. Godwin and Shelley. Gray and his school. Sterne. Country books. George Eliot. Autobiography. Carlyle's ethics. The State trials. Coleridge

Source: Hours in a Library: Charlotte Brontë. Charles Kingsley. Godwin and Shelley. Gray and his school. Sterne. Country books. George Eliot. Autobiography. Carlyle's ethics. The State trials. Coleridge

“We who with songs beguile your pilgrimage And swear that Beauty lives though lilies die, We Poets of the proud old lineage Who sing to find your hearts, we know not why What shall we tell you? Tales, marvellous tales Of ships and stars and isles where good men rest.”

Knows Men Heart Song Dies Stars Poet Proud Tales Ships Good Man Swear Lilies Pilgrimage Beauty Of Life Marvellous Isle Lineage

Author:James Elroy Flecker

“Give me a theme," the little poet cried, "And I will do my part," "'Tis not a theme you need," the world replied; "You need a heart.”

World Needs Giving Heart Littles Poet Give Me Theme Cried

Author:Richard Watson Gilder

“And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me.”

Thinking Knows Heart Mean Littles Hands Artist Poet My Heart Drawing Bedroom Notebook

Author:Conor Oberst