“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”
Source: Selected Letters
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“Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?”
Source: Your Native Land, Your Life
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.”
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”
“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”
Source: Poems
Source: Walt Whitman Quotes... Vol. 20: Motivational and Inspirational Life Quotes by Walt Whitman
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
Source: Reviews
“I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.”
Source: Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations
Source: Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life
“There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it”
Source: Young Poet's Primer
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)
“Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.”
“But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.”
Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival
“Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know.”
Source: Banjo Paterson Complete Poems
“It's so diffuse being alive. Suddenly one is aware that nobody really gives a damn.”
“She doesn't trust easily, but when she does it's always with the devil himself.”
Source: Moon Gypsy
Source: Emotional Roller Coaster: Confessions of a soul reborn from the ashes
Source: Flowers for the Dead