“There shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let her go, she, too, will be poet! Woman will find the unknown! Will her ideational worlds be different from ours? She will come upon strange, unfathomable, repellent, delightful things; we shall take them, we shall comprehend them.” MenWorldDifferentStrangePoetBrokenDelightfulBondageUnfathomableLet Her GoDelightful Things Author:Arthur Rimbaud
“Frequently, as so many poets and psalmists and songwriters have said, the invisible shift happens through the broken places.” SaidHappensPoetBrokenInvisibleSongwriters Author:Anne Lamott
“Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.” WorldLanguagePrayerPoetBrokenAmbitionClothesPraiseDressesRemainsProfoundExtraordinaryHeroicDelicateHonorableGraciousEloquentBroken World Author:David St. John
“Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.” KnowsHeartRunningPassionKnow HowPoetBrokenPublication Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“[Abdellatif Laâbi] was a poet and worked as a high school teacher; and although he hadn't broken any laws, the Moroccan government was determined to "gag" him - I use the term specifically since one of my favorite sequences of his is entitled "The Poem Beneath The Gag."” UseGovernmentSchoolLawTermTeacherPoetBrokenHigh SchoolMy FavoriteDeterminedEntitledSequenceSchool TeachersGagsHigh School Teachers Author:Andre Naffis-Sahely