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“Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.”

May Poetry Purpose Air Tree Bees Verses

Book:At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

Source: At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems

“Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.”

Long Poetry Air Poet Poetry Is Blur

Book:The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

Source: The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”

Love Moments Poetry Sleep Air Unnoticed

Author:Margaret Atwood

“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”

Life Made Poetry Animal Air Sea Land Poet Scripts Barriers Poetry Is Going Away Rainbow Journal Living On Phantoms Syllables

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.”

Writing Poetry Animal Air Sea Land Poet Poetry Is Journal Living On Great Poet Great Poetry Poetry By Poets Greatest Poetry

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.”

Writing Poetry Loses Written Air Organized Regions Substitutes Verses Penetrate Primal Anon

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.”

World Spirit Poetry Air Wave Melody Brightness Sparkle

Book:The poetical works of James Gates Percival

Source: The poetical works of James Gates Percival

“Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.”

Way Poetry Air Hair Angel Flow Clouds Ice Bows Cream Ice Cream Feathers Castles Canyons Castles In The Air

Author:Joni Mitchell

“Unjustified ambition kills value, Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air. If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.”

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Author:Dejan Stojanovic