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“Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.”

Source: Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

“I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.”

Inspirational Heart Two Might Poetry Break My Heart Pages Someday Cages Love Poems Save Me Ribs Rib Cage

Author:Andrea Gibson

“What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.”

Way Writing Looks Heart Doe Might Moving Poetry Dies Secret Saws Flower Terrible Beats Screens Opening Poetry Is Vivid Closing Heart Beat What Is Poetry

Author:Elizabeth Smart

“Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem.”

World Humans Might Poetry Turns Vision Our Lives This World Insight Insane Recognition Dimensions Exploring Gaudy

Book:Claiming Breath

Source: Claiming Breath

“Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.”

Knows Want Art Might Poetry Records Concerned

Author:George Oppen

“You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.”

“Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite.”

Giving May Might Earth Poetry Wish Poet Satellites

Book:The poetry of Robert Frost

Source: The poetry of Robert Frost

“If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.”

Ifs World Said Might Poetry Moved Verses Inquisition

Book:Hardy: Selected Poems

Source: Hardy: Selected Poems

“Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared language, the voice of "communication"; the other is private, allusive, teasing, sly, idiosyncratic as the spider's delicate web, a kind of witchcraft unfathomable to ordinary minds.”

Writing Mind Kind Might Poetry Language Social Voice Communication Ordinary Prose Delicate Discourse Spiders Witchcraft Tease Unfathomable Sly

Book:(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

Source: (Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities

“You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.”

Might Poetry Artist Subjects Forgiving Load Sincerely Forgive Me Curb Magnanimity Rift

Author:Bob Dylan

“A drainless shower Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.”

Light Might Poetry Half Arms Supreme Showers

Book:Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats

Source: Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats

“A poem might be defined as thinking about feelings - about human feelings and frailties.”

Thinking Humans Feelings Might Poetry Defined Frailty Human Frailties

Author:Anne Stevenson

“If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.”

Ifs Knows May Doe Might Poetry Heaven Poet Horse Sticks

Author:Charles Ives