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“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. It speaks of what seems fantastic and unreal to those who have lost the simple intuitions which are the test of reality; and, as it is often found at war with its age, so it makes no account of history, which is fabled by the daughters of memory.”

War Reality Seems Age Poetry Found Lost Speak Memories Simple Daughter Tests Accounts Intuition Fantastic Revolt Unreal Actuality Artifice

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.”

Writing Doe Able Poetry Lost Novel Illumination Flare Flare Up

Author:Kate Braverman

“I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others at any rate, and however attended with smoke: but now I must have all sense, and cannot, for the sake of five righteous lines, forgive a thousand absurd ones.”

Made Poetry Literature Lost Lines Deals Fire Five Poet Thousand Forgiving Rate Sake Absurd Smoke Righteous Obscurity

Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters

Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters

“Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.”

Ifs Ends Whole Poetry Lost Jokes Poetry Is One Word

Author:W. S. Merwin

“I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.”

Way Poetry Lost Prose Verses Translations

Book:Conversations on the Craft of Poetry

Source: Conversations on the Craft of Poetry

“I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”

Want Believe Book Poetry Reading Lost Trust Don't Believe Classic Paradise Reading Books Big Book Blind Trust Book Titles

Author:Mark Twain

“Hurdles will come... It may stop you... But keep walking.. Until you reach there... where you always want to go.”

Inspirational Poetry Lost Strong Strength Roots Gold Frost Glitter Bhawna Says

Author:Bhawna Dehariya

“True love is what I fear Why not just disappear I can’t hide my fear I can’t hold my tears Love should be fair For anyone who is there Love should be clear Love should be fair No matter whom or where It’s not how you dare It’s not I don’t care From one, who dares, To the one who scared”

Love Poetry Lost Strong Strength Roots Gold Wander

Author:haytham hossam

“I will miss my chest exploding you coming home late not turning on the light always waking me up I will miss the sudden burst of safety when you look at me or hold my hand or say something like ”let’s go home” I will miss the years I lost on something or someone. The pieces didn’t fit, shaped wrong the timing slightly off. I loved you like I always will.”

Love Home Poetry Lost Missing Poem Heartbreak Safety Leaving Wrong Lost Love Break Up Loved Miss Waking Up Chest Sad Poetry Hold My Hand Sad Poem Loved You I Will Miss

Author:Charlotte Eriksson

“Nothingness ...there in this place where nothingness takes but for the glimmer a steadfast shimmer all would be consumed...”

Life Philosophy Pain Poetry Religion Faith Evil Hope Belief Lost Victory Poem Eternal Salvation Saved Heartache Prose Rejoice Agony Oblivion Souls Reborn Phlilosophy Santified

Book:Enigmatic Evolution

Source: Enigmatic Evolution

“I didn't want to sing. I wanted to be music.”

Love Life Writing Art Dream Pain Desire Poetry Purpose Passion Found Lost Beauty Music Dreams Singing Writer Writers Wishes

Book:The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems

Source: The Calligraphy of God: A Collection of Love Poems