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“The lamp you lighted in the olden time Will show you my heart's-blood beating through the rhyme: A poet's journal, writ in fire and tears... Then slow deliverance, with the gaps of years.”

Years Heart Shows Poetry Fire Blood Tears Poet My Heart Gaps Journal Rhyme Lamps Deliverance Olden Times

Book:The Poems of Bayard Taylor

Source: The Poems of Bayard Taylor

“It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the tomb; and when an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.”

Way Soul Eye Earth Joy Poetry Tears Evidence Witness Paradise Melancholy Nerves Excess Imperfect Disposition Delay Glimpse Exquisite Tombs Splendor Imperfect Things

Author:Charles Baudelaire

“This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down.”

Inspirational Poetry House Tears Like You Heartbeat Hatchet

Author:Andrea Gibson

“I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done.”

Way Writing States Done Seems Would Be Poetry Realizing Brain Greater Tears Poet Creating Tasks Fishes Refuse Torture Muscles Nerves Passages Denied Organs Agony Jelly Point Break

Author:Amy Lowell

“A child playing with dolls may shed heartfelt tears when his bundle of rags and scraps becomes deathly ill and dies ... So we may come to an understanding of language as playing with dolls: in language, scraps of sound are used to make dolls and replace all the things in the world.”

World May Children Used Poetry Dies Literature Language Understanding Sound Tears Ill Shed Dolls Heartfelt Scrap Rags Bundles Children Playing

Author:Velimir Khlebnikov

“It may be safely affirmed that there neither is, nor can be, any essential difference between the language of prose and metrical composition.... They both speak by and to the same organs; the bodies in which both of them are clothed may be said to be of the same substance, their affections are kindred, and almost identical, not necessarily differing even in degree; Poetry sheds no tears "such as Angels weep," but natural and human tears; she can boast of no celestial ichor that distinguishes her vital juices from those of prose; the same human blood circulates through the veins of them both.”

“Song, like a wing, tears through my breast, my side, And madness chooses out my voice again, Again.”

Poetry Song Sides Voice Tears Poet Madness Wings Breasts

Book:Poems and new poems

Source: Poems and new poems

“The life and vigor of poetry consists of the fact that it steps out of itself, tears out a section of religion, then withdraws into itself to assimilate it. The same is true of philosophy.”

Philosophy Facts Poetry Steps Tears Poet Sections Vigor

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Poetry is the sister of Sorrow. Every man that suffers and weeps is a poet; every tear is a verse, and every heart a poem.”

Men Heart Poetry Suffering Tears Poet Sorrow Every Man Poetry Is Verses

Author:Marc-Andre Fleury

“I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet.”

Book Faces Moving Poetry Tears Poet One Day Ran Shelves

Author:William Everson

“And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal”

Hands Poetry Healing Blood Tears Heal Steel Wipe Self Injury Tears Of Blood

Book:Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

Source: Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

“Rusted Flowers From her heart’s tear-salted soil, rusted flowers grew. A serrated beauty; wounding all those who bent near.”

Poetry Beauty Tears Heartbreak Flowers Wounded Damaged Quotes About Women Rusted

Author:John Mark Green

“If you can weep with your words, the meaning of your heart can be written forever”

Heart Poetry Written Tears Wise Words Words Heartache Power Of Words Weep

Author:Munia Khan