“Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.” WayPoetryWishEmotionConsciousnessClearSlides Author:C. K. Williams
“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.” WorldWayEndsDeathPoetryReligionMoralityApocalypseEnd Of The WorldBangsHollowApocalypticPost ApocalypticGreat PoetryGreatest PoetryHollow ManBongos Author:T. S. Eliot
“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.” MenWorldWayYearsStillsTodayMovingPoetryFallLeftWhiteGoneSkyWindThousandMountainOceanPagesRainYears AgoStonesArmyHeavyEastDisappearKingdomsBoatIslandsFishingAutumnThousand YearsAnother ManEmperorWhipsChinsCrackedShiverDesolateGaleFishing BoatsHeavy Rain Author:Mao Zedong
“"Glorious, stirring sight!" murmured Toad. . . . "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today - in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped- always somebody else's horizons! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"” WayRealTodayPoetryNextCitiesWeekTomorrowSightTownsBlissGloriousHorizonVillageStirringNext WeekToadsPoopWind In The Willows Author:Kenneth Grahame
“The poet is born with the capacity of arranging words in such a way that something of the quality of the graces and inspirations he has received can make itself felt to other human beings in the white spaces, so to speak, between the lines of his verse. This is a great and precious gift; but if the poet remains content with his gift, if he persists in worshipping the beauty in art and nature without going on to make himself capable, through selflessness, of apprehending Beauty as it is in the divine Ground, then he is only an idolater.” IfsWayHumansArtInspirationPoetrySpeakFeltBornLinesHuman BeingsSpaceWhiteQualityGraceDivinePoetCapableCapacityRemainsVersesPersistSelflessnessArrangingPrecious GiftsBetween The LinesWhite Space Author:Aldous Huxley
“Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.” WayPoetryAirHairAngelFlowCloudsIceBowsCreamIce CreamFeathersCastlesCanyonsCastles In The Air Author:Joni Mitchell
“Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take.” WayI CanEarthPoetryRoomsBreakFiveBreathsBlowNosesAwakeShakesBubblesTrapsWrapsSlapQuake Author:Peter Gabriel
“Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.” WayPoetryLipsShipsSlips Author:Tupac Shakur
“Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat.” WayPoetrySummerHatsTeenageDrummerMadmenDumpPumpsDiplomatsBummer Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.” ThinkingWayPoetryPoetVisionariesOutlaw Author:Jim Jarmusch