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“All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to face.”

Thinking Faces Poetry Poet Intimate Face To Face

Author:Selima Hill

“All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.”

Needs Hands Faces Poetry Land Youth Poet Fool All Things Driven Crafts Distraction One Time Verses Toil Accustomed Seeming

Book:Poems of William Butler Yeats

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.”

Long Faces Poetry Strong Sky Healthy Blue Calm Wickedness Blue Sky Reformers Motherly

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are”

Truth Faces Poetry Fighting Black White Dying Poet Truth Is Racism Mouths Black And White Face To Face

Book:Odes

Source: Odes

“I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.”

Book Faces Moving Poetry Tears Poet One Day Ran Shelves

Author:William Everson

“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.”

“To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.”

Faces Poetry Voice Nature Silence Crazy Curiosity Delight Spontaneous Spontaneity Being Crazy Psychotic Wildness Nature Love

Author:Robert Bly

“I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces. Now they are nothing, they are not even babies. I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods. They will wonder if I was important.”

Ifs Want Firsts Important Faces Mother Poetry Father Stars Wonder Imagine Baby Moon Roots Distance Rounds Boxes Dumb Staring Pale Minerals Stripes

Author:Sylvia Plath

“One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.”

Two Faces Form Poetry Three Mountain Lovely Vain Grass Charm Hares Lovely Face

Book:The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

“Creatures crawl in search of blood to terrorize your neighborhood. And whosoever shall be found without the soul for getting down, must stand and face the hounds of hell, and rot inside a corpse's shell.”

Soul Faces Poetry Found Hell Blood Creatures Neighborhood Shells Corpses Hounds

Author:Michael Jackson