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“Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.”

Poetry Born Simple Poor Cities Fields Flower Woods Strain Lanes Meadows Aloof

Book:Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin

Source: Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin

“Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.”

Poetry Born Journey Painful Regions Poetry Is

Author:Honore de Balzac

“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”

Poetry Voice Born Poet Grew Grew Up Rain Rivers Towns Forests Hills Rainy Day Raindrops Timber

Author:Pablo Neruda

“Every Night and every Morn Some to Misery are born. Every Morn and every Night Some are born to Sweet Delight, Some are born to Endless Night.”

Poetry Night Born Sweet Baby Misery Delight Endless Every Night Dead Man

Author:William Blake

“The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.”

Poetry Born Novel Despair Disillusionment

Author:Jose Bergamin

“The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.”

“A person born with an instinct for poverty.”

Persons Poetry Born Poverty Instinct

Book:Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

Source: Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work

“Poets are born, not paid.”

Poetry Born Poet Paid

Book:The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom

Source: The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom

“I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.”

Remember Poetry Born Existence Sky Planets Balls Storm Dawn Grass Gas Void Splits Flash Belly Lit Remember When Spit Jade

Book:Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015

Source: Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015