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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

“Early poems are a thing it takes years to live down.”

Author:Angela Thirkell

“A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.”

Years Art Poetry Radio

Author:Allen Ginsberg

“The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has never before, in the world's history, been an epoch which has tolerated and even welcomed such a flood of verse as has been poured forth over Great Britain during the last three years.”

World Years Has Beens War Lasts Poetry Three Literature Ears Contemporary Britain Three Years Verses Flood Great Britain Epoch Anthology

Author:Edmund Gosse

“The man who invented Eskimo Pie made a million dollars, so one is told, but E.E. Cummings, whose verse has been appearing off andon for three years now, and whose experiments should not be more appalling to those interested in poetry than the experiment of surrounding ice-cream with a layer of chocolate was to those interested in soda fountains, has hardly made a dent in the doughy minds of our so-called poetry lovers.”

“Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.”

Years Poetry Time Poet Kings Dull Discontent Clerks

Book:Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)

“Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne, Poets who wrote great poems, one by one, And spaced by many years, each line an act Through which few labor, which no men retract. This passion is the scholar's heritage”

Men Years Poetry Passion Lines Poet Labor Heritage Scholar Donne Raleigh

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.”

World Years Poetry Loneliness Messages Years Ago Lonely Passing Passings Aliens Hostile Gave Up Feeling Lonely Being Lonely

Author:Russell Baker

“Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!”

Writing Years Poetry Three Thousand Three Years

Author:Ray Bradbury

“Let your poem be kept nine years.”

Years Poetry Nine Nine Years

Author:Horace

“No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.”

Thinking Knows Years Mind Has Beens Matter Used Poetry Learning Connections More Knowledge

Author:A. Ray Olpin

“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.”

“Poem for Liu Ya-tzu I cannot forget how in Canton we drank tea and in Chungking went over our poems when leaves were yellowing. Thirty-one years ago and now we come back at last to the ancient capital Peking. In this season of falling flowers I read your beautiful poems. Be careful not to be torn inside. Open your vision to the world. Don't say that waters of Kumming Lake are too shallow. We can watch fish better here than in the Fuchun River in the south.”

World Years Lasts Beautiful Poetry Fall Water Forget Vision Watches Flower Years Ago Rivers Seasons South Ancient Fishes Careful Tea Thirty Lakes Be Careful Shallow Torn Drank Your Beautiful

Author:Mao Zedong

“I would especially like to re-court the Muse of poetry, who ran off with the mailman four years ago, and drops me only a scribbled postcard from time to time.”

Years Poetry Four Years Ago Court Ran Four Years Muse Postcards Mailman

Author:John Updike