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“Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare.”

World Poetry Literature Sun Growing Tree Color Flower Honor Shapes Deserve England Rose Plant Come Up Seeds Soil Offspring Sowing Eldest Persia Fruitfulness Hafiz Plants Growing

Author:Robert Aris Willmott

“I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.”

Way Hard Poetry Literature Stuff Doors Rocks Particular Music Is Gun Rose Loud Another Way Metallica Hard Rock Guns N Roses Loud Music

Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.”

Made Said Poetry Language Poet Rose Rings Nouns

Book:Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein

Source: Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein

“In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.”

Ideas Poetry Order Principles Cases Poet Rose Formulas Combat Atoms Splits Definite Versus Brutality Obscurity Dissociation

Author:Ezra Pound

“When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.”

Humans Soul Poetry Artist Grows Tree Produce Divine Spring Rose Plant Human Soul Germs

Author:James A. Garfield

“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.”

Source: Selected letters of Don Marquis

“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.”

May Stills Death Poetry Time Opportunity Dying Flower Tomorrow Rose Flying Time Management Bud Impermanence Old Time Rosebuds Rose Buds

Author:Robert Herrick

“For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.”

Poetry Time Turns Love Is Darkness Our Lives Wife And Love Rose Fruit Lust Dust Division Crowns Our Love Corpses Thorns Old Days Barren Life Time Derision

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.”

Doe Poetry Poet Rose Bother Poetry Is Poetic Nurse Scent Gardener Nursery

Book:A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including

Source: A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including

“Let first the onion flourish there, Rose among roots, the maiden-fair, Wine-scented and poetic soul Of the capacious salad bowl.”

Firsts Soul Poetry Fairs Roots Wine Rose Poetic Bowls Salad Onions Maidens

Book:The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses, Underwoods, Songs of Travel, Ballads and Other Poems by a prolific Scottish writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped

Source: The Complete Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson: A Child's Garden of Verses, Underwoods, Songs of Travel, Ballads and Other Poems by a prolific Scottish writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped

“…My fate is heartbreak …I am not in love; I am not at risk of pain And I found inner peace …Suffering from love Has had enough inside of me; I don’t think I will ever love again”

Love Heart Poetry Relationships Heartbreak Rose Dark Romance Dark Fantasy Psychological Thriller Cozy Mystery

Book:Rose: Future Heart

Source: Rose: Future Heart

“Poetry without truth, is like a rose without thorns. Still pretty, But sometime the real beauty comes from the things that can make us bleed.”

Real Truth Pain Poetry Emotion Blood Rose Thorns

Author:Cody Edward Lee Miller