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“Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home.”

Inspirational Heart Home Wanted Lasts Poetry Night Saws Moon Sitting Fingers Heavy Ghost Chests Pointing Last Night Bicycle Glowing Baskets Pointing Fingers

Author:Andrea Gibson

“The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under complete focused emotion, the evocation be far more bitter than reality, or far more lovely.”

World Littles Reality Lasts Poetry Emotion Poet Focused Lovely Bitter Resorts Finding Peace

Book:Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

Source: Journey around my room: the autobiography of Louise Bogan : a mosaic

“The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has never before, in the world's history, been an epoch which has tolerated and even welcomed such a flood of verse as has been poured forth over Great Britain during the last three years.”

World Years Has Beens War Lasts Poetry Three Literature Ears Contemporary Britain Three Years Verses Flood Great Britain Epoch Anthology

Author:Edmund Gosse

“I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.”

Feels Has Beens Said Book Lasts Poetry Literature Careers Stage Could Have Been

Book:Literary Occasions: Essays

Source: Literary Occasions: Essays

“He was my North, my South, my East and West, My working week and my Sunday rest, My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song; I thought that love would last forever: I was wrong.”

“grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.”

“Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.”

Mind Lasts Poetry Interest Events Degrees Curiosity Unexpected Surprising Catastrophe Engaging Suspended

Book:The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief n 'tradition' or a common myth-kitty or casual allusions in poems to other poems or poets, which last I find unpleasantly like the talk of literary understrappers letting you see they know the right people.”

People Knows Believe Lasts Poetry Universe Belief I Believe Common Principles Poet Tradition Myth Sole Casual Allusion Kitties Guiding Principles

Author:Philip Larkin

“It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts. The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Moments Lasts Poetry Reading Waiting Taken Reader Strikes Wounds Absurd Immortal Over It Lasting Touching Get Over

Author:Robert Frost

“There will be miracles After the last war is won Science and poetry rule in the new world to come Prophets and angels Gave us the power to see What an amazing future there will be”

World War Lasts Poetry Vision Future Angel Miracle Prophet New World

Author:Billy Joel

“I think the poet is the last person who is still speaking the truth when no one else dares to. I think the poet is the first person to begin the shaping and visioning of the new forms and the new consciousness when no one else has begun to sense it; I think these are two of the most essential human functions.”

“And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers. Go running back to dust and mist.”

Running Lasts Poetry Answers Poet Dust Mist Running Back

Book:Carl Sandburg

Source: Carl Sandburg

“Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one years ago and now we come back at last to the ancient capital Peking. In this season of falling flowers I read your beautiful poems. Be careful not to be torn inside. Open your vision to the world. Don't say that waters of Kumming Lake are too shallow. We can watch fish better here than in the Fuchun River in the south.”

World Years Lasts Beautiful Poetry Fall Water Forget Vision Watches Flower Years Ago Rivers Seasons South Ancient Fishes Careful Tea Thirty Lakes Be Careful Shallow Torn Drank Your Beautiful

Author:Mao Zedong

“Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it.”

Ends Lasts Poetry Fall Lines Goes On Prose Poetry Is

Author:Jeremy Bentham