“You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.” PlayArtistSongPoetBirdProfound Author:Dolly Parton
“And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.” ThinkingWellsMadeTurnsWaitingSoundSleepLonelinessCryPoetClothesBirdThis LifeAshamedYellowLocksSteamDrawersPolaroids Author:Conor Oberst
“.. to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.” HumansReasonLanguageSoundCommunityLove IsPoetSelf LoveSingingBirdAnd Love Author:Sharon Olds
“With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.” FoundLiteratureAnswersToo MuchPoetMusicianBirdPraiseAgreeTongueInterpretationBellsEchoesRhymeUtteranceInaccessibleInarticulateMimicry Book:The Essential Alice Meynell Collection Source: The Essential Alice Meynell Collection
“In days of yore, the poet's pen From wing of bird was plunder'd, Perhaps of goose, but now and then, From Jove's own eagle sunder'd. But now, metallic pens disclose Alone the poet's numbers; In iron inspiration glows, Or with the poet slumbers.” InspirationNumbersPoetBirdWingsIronPensNow And ThenEaglesGeeseSlumberPlunderMetallic Author:John Adams
“Love seems to beautify and inspire all nature. It raises the earthly caterpillar into the ethereal butterfly, it paints the feathers in spring, it lights the glowworm's lamp, it wakens the song of birds, and inspires the poet's lay. Even inanimate Nature seems to feel the spell, and flowers glow with the richest colours.” FeelsLightSeemsSongInspirePoetFlowerSpringBirdRaisesLaysPaintColourSpellsButterflyFeathersLampsCaterpillarsEthereal Author:John Lubbock
“One of the best gifts you can give a poet is to present them with field guides - to rocks, to stars, to birds, to wildflowers, to trees and bushes, to butterflies, to reptiles and amphibians. Because when you look at anything long enough to be able to identify it, you see far more clearly and you make a tiny beginning at understanding the life, the place, the history of that bird or rock or mammal.” GivingLooksLongEnoughAbleStarsUnderstandingTreeRocksFieldsPoetBirdGuidesTinyButterflyMammalsBest GiftWildflowersReptilesAmphibians Author:Marge Piercy
“I wrote a number of poems about Kah Tai lagoon, when Safeway was building that huge, ugly store down there where I used to love to watch the birds nest. That political poem, or environmental poem, was unsuccessful because Safeway built there anyway. And yet the poem has something to say today, as it did then. And I speak here only of my own poems. The agenda for every poet has to be different because most of us write from direct human experience in the world.” WorldWritingHumansDifferentTodayPoliticalUsedSpeakMy OwnNumbersWatchesBuildingPoetHugeBirdBuiltDirectEnvironmentalUglyStoresAgendasHuman ExperienceNestsUnsuccessfulUsed To LoveLagoons Author:Sam Hamill