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“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

“Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.”

Men Pain Grows Half Music Laughing Poet Cost Rivers Beast Sigh Reeds True God

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.”

Grows Poet Bigger Frogs Windy Tadpoles

Book:Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle

Source: Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle

“I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.”

Grows Tears Poet Rings Glad Strings Sorrowful

Author:James Russell Lowell

“There learned arts do flourish in great honour And poets's wits are had in peerless price; Religion hath lay power, to rest upon her, Advancing virtue, and suppressing vice. For end all good, all grace there freely grows, Had people grace it gratefully to use: For God His gifts there plenteously bestows, But graceless men them greatly do abuse.”

People Men Art Ends Use Grows Virtue Grace Poet Abuse England Lays Vices Wit Honour Advancing Suppressing

Book:The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

Source: The poetical works of Edmund Spenser: With memoir and critical dissertations

“Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk”

Knows Men Art Wisdom Artist Grows Fate Violence Poet Accomplish Painter Mates Tense Wisest Sculptors Wisest Man Shirk

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.”

Life Art Life Is Poetry Grows Poet Perfection Manifestation Internals Sentiments Formal

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Hyesims poems: transformative as walking high granite mountains by moonlight, with fragrant herbs underfoot and a thermos of clear tea in the backpack. Their bedrock is thusness, their images beauty is pellucid and new, their view without limit. The shelf of essential Zen poets for American readers grows larger with this immediately indispensable collection.”

Grows Views Clear Poet Reader Walking Mountain Limits Essentials Tea Collections Shelves Indispensable Moonlight Herbs Bedrock Granite Thermos

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“I grow very impatient with prose writers who don't pay attention to the cadence of the sentence. If you start as a poet, you're wooed by the music of language; you want to put that into your practice.”

Ifs Want Language Grows Pay Attention Practice Poet Sentences Pay Attention Prose Impatient Cadence

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“I don't think I'd ever get any better as a poet if I didn't push myself, very deliberately, to grow. My best poems surprise me, as they should, but I fight them at every turn, possibly just because I'm stubborn.”

Ifs Thinking Should Turns Fighting Grows Poet Surprise Stubborn Surprise Me Best Poem

Author:James Arthur

“All babies are incoherent, but they grow up. That is the principle difference between an infant and a poet.”

Grows Differences Principles Growing Up Poet Baby Infant

Author:Sharyn McCrumb

“The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.”

Way Language Grows Poet Logic Plant Spread Organisms Living Organisms

Author:Thomas Merton

“The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog; not though in that stage of development he should puff and blow himself till he bursts with windy adulation at the heels of the laureled ox.”

Should Grows Stage Poet Development Bigger Blow Heels Frogs Puff Windy Adulation Stages Of Development Tadpoles

Book:Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle

Source: Swinburne Replies: Notes on Poems and Reviews, Under the Microscope [and] Dedicatory Epistle

“One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out with age, is not, as the poet said, making money, but having the respect of one's fellow men.”

Men Doe Said Age Lasts Grows Pleasure Poet Honor Fellows Making Money Worn Fellow Man Worn Out

Author:Thucydides

“It's fun to see someone grow as a writer, moving from their first workshopped poems to publishing their earliest poems to having a book accepted for publication. It's great to see poets with persistence succeed.”

Firsts Book Moving Fun Grows Poet Succeed Accepted Persistence Publishing Publication

Author:Allison Joseph

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

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