“Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Anger? Lust? Or is the wheelbarrow simply red because red sounded better than black?” UseBlackBloodPoetRedLustColourWheelbarrows Book:Thirteen Reasons Why Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“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.” YearsHeartShowsPoetryFireBloodTearsPoetMy HeartGapsJournalRhymeLampsDeliveranceOlden Times Book:The Poems of Bayard Taylor Source: The Poems of Bayard Taylor
“Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills gets into your blood out there.” SpiritArtistTurnsBornBloodPoetHillsSantaRosa Author:Robert Ripley
“Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.” WorldTwoDesireBloodPoetSolitudeToss Author:Matthew Arnold
“Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of capacious soul and formal inventiveness: the compassion and artfulness necessary to capture the tragedies and Tragedy of Katrina. Smith is herself a storm of beautiful, frightening talent. Her words will wash you or wash you away. I consider this new book a major literary event.” LongHas BeensBookSoulBeautifulCompassionBloodTalentEventsPoetMajorsLong TimeTragedyStormCaptureFrighteningFormalNew BooksKatrinaInventivenessBest Poet Author:Terrance Hayes
“It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.... They both speak by and to the same organs; the bodies in which both of them are clothed may be said to be of the same substance, their affections are kindred, and almost identical, not necessarily differing even in degree; Poetry sheds no tears "such as Angels weep," but natural and human tears; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.” HumansMaySaidBodyPoetrySpeakLanguageNaturalDifferencesBloodTearsPoetEssentialsDegreesAngelAffectionSubstanceProseOrgansShedCompositionVeinsBoastJuiceIdenticalCelestialKindred Author:William Wordsworth
“the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry, by which I lived?” PoetryWonderBloodPoetWanderFlavorStickyInfusion Book:A New Selected Poems Source: A New Selected Poems
“Revolution is a bitter thing, mixed with filth and blood, not as lovely or perfect as the poets think. It is eminently down to earth, involving many humble, tiresome tasks, not so romantic as the poets think... . So it is easy for all who have romantic dreams about revolution to become disillusioned on closer acquaintance, when a revolution is actually carried out.” ThinkingDreamEarthEasyPerfectBloodPoetRevolutionTasksHumbleLovelyBitterAcquaintanceInvolvingDown To EarthFilthDisillusionedTiresome Author:Lu Xun
“If you want to write poetry, you must have poems that deeply move you. Poems you can't live without. I think of a poem as the blood in a blood transfusion, given from the heart of the poet to the heart of the reader. Seek after poems that live inside you, poems that move through your veins.” IfsThinkingWantWritingHeartMovingGivenBloodPoetReaderVeinsBlood Transfusion Author:Ralph Fletcher
“If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus famliarised to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to the aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.” IfsMenShouldFormSpiritBloodDivineReadyPoetDearAidsFleshGenuineWelcomeHouseholdFlesh And BloodInmatesTransfiguration Author:William Wordsworth
“The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.” MenPersonsRealMatterHalfBloodPoetShapesReal MenReal PersonSissy Author:Charles Bukowski