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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

“My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.”

Inspirational Giving Heart Stills Poetry Waiting Sweet My Heart Jackets Leather Leather Jackets

Author:Andrea Gibson

“In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational Writing Stills Together Poetry Forget Arms Letters Sweaters Love Letter Yarn

Author:Andrea Gibson

“The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.”

World Trying Believe Stills Reason Enough Poetry Language Poet Description Good Enough Social Change

Book:On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

Source: On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978

“Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing.”

Giving Wells Stills Matter Poetry Literature Space Pages Importance Affair Edges Chosen Prose Convincing Interrupted

Book:Auto da Fay: A Memoir

Source: Auto da Fay: A Memoir

“In any period it is upon a very small minority that the discerning appreciation of art and literature depends ... They are still a minority, though a larger one, who are capable of endorsing such first-hand judgement by genuine personal response.”

Firsts Art Stills Hands Poetry Literature Depends Periods Capable Response Appreciation Genuine Judgement Minorities Discerning Endorsing

Author:F. R. Leavis

“To clothe the fiery thought In simple words succeeds, For still the craft of genius is To mask a king in weeds.”

Stills Poetry Simple Poet Genius Kings Succeed Crafts Mask Weed Fiery Simple Words

Book:Emerson's Literary Criticism

Source: Emerson's Literary Criticism

“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.”

“Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of no moment to the world, it is still of some concern to the author.”

World Firsts Humans Stills Matter Moments Poetry Literature Events Poet Concern Verses Volume Insignificant Publication

Book:Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville

Source: Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville

“I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.”

Said Stills Lying Poetry Poet Singing Tables Rounds

Author:Anne Sexton

“England still waits for the supreme moment of her literature--for the great poet who shall voice her, or, better still, for the thousand little poets whose voices shall pass into our common talk.”

Littles Stills Moments Poetry Literature Waiting Voice Common Poet Thousand England Supreme Great Poet

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.”

Source: Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life

“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.”

Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard

“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

“Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made still a blundering kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in; Free from all meaning whether good or bad, And in one word, heroically mad.”

Kind Made Stills Poetry Knowing Mad Nonsense Melody Thick One Word Thick And Thin Through Thick And Thin

Book:Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations

Source: Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations

“Still may syllables jar with time, Still may reason war with rhyme, Resting never!”

May Stills War Reason Poetry Rhyme Jars Syllables

Author:Ben Jonson

“The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words, but circuitously by means of imaginative associations, which serve as its conductors.”

Mean Stills Form Poetry Understanding Merit Association Imaginative Conductor

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“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.”

“I still read Donne, particularly his love poems”

Stills Poetry Reading Books His Love Love Poems Donne

Author:Carol Ann Duffy

“One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single short poem has room for history, music, psychology, religious thought, mood, occult speculation, character, and events of one's own life. I still feel surprised that such various substances can find shelter and nourishment in a poem. A poem in fact may be a sort of nourishing liquid, such as one uses to keep an amoeba alive. If prepared right, a poem can keep an image or a thought or insights on history or the psyche alive for years, as well as our desires and airy impulses.”

“Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains." Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world.”

“For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.”

Stills Seems Eye Poetry Turns Fields Scene Gay Shining Classic Poetic Prospects Gilded

Author:Joseph Addison

“Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.”

Heart Stills Poetry Seeing Cold Praying Tomorrow Eternity Cold Heart

Author:Ja Rule

“Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.”

Stills Poetry Steps Stage Conscience Empty Fishes Load Cages Truck Capes Fiddlers

Book:The Lyrics: Since 1962

Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962

“Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.”

Heart Stills Poetry Night Dark Broken Horse Wave Ships Racing Sailing Harbors Fright Searchers Horse Racing Dark Horse

Author:Neil Young

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