“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.” FeelsTryingHeartUniverseSpeakAnimalEnvironmentPoetHigherPicksFellowsPlantCellsFancyVisibleFriendlyStoppingEnthusiasticCrystalsPlants And Animals Book:My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!” YearsLiteratureLanguageWhiteFirePoetSweetFlowerPicksIndependentFolksFortyLovableIncense Author:Gwendolyn Brooks
“All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and wild imagination is not as rich, wild and surprising as reality. The task of the poet is to pick singular threads from this dense, colorful fabric.” RealityImaginationCommonRichPoetPicksTasksRegardAgreementSurprisingThreadFabricColorfulDenseAll The BestPrimacyWild Imagination Author:Wislawa Szymborska
“I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king I've been up and down and over and out and I know one thing Each time I find myself flat on my face I pick myself up and get back in the race” KnowsFacesRaceOne ThingPoetKingsPicksDown AndFlatsGet BackUp And DownPiratePuppetsPawns Author:Frank Sinatra
“Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up some unknown station. Poets feel that we are cut off from meaning by a thick, lead wall, and that sometimes for no reason we can understand the wall seems to vanish and we are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of the infinite interestingness of things.” FeelsHumansSometimesReasonFeelingsSeemsMightUniverseHuman BeingsCuttingMagicPoetWallSpringPicksInfiniteRadioNo ReasonMysticismStationsThickOverwhelmed Book:The Occult: A History Source: The Occult: A History
“Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry.” IfsWayNeedsBookReadingPoetPicksReading Poetry Author:A. E. Housman