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“There is no peace to be taken With poets who are young, For they worry about the wars to be fought and the songs that must be sung.”

War Young Poetry Song Worry Taken Poet

Book:Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

Source: Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems

“Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.”

Men Soul Young Poetry Poet Died Carrie Inner Child Die Young

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was the greatest of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine.”

Writing Humans Long Young Poetry Girl Memories Human Beings Blessing Elements Regard Atmosphere Dull Touched Sunshine Helpful Toil Enchanted Drudgery Long Day

Book:A New England girlhood

Source: A New England girlhood

“The poetry is the Earth, charming; The river, flowing from lofty mountains; Nature, a young woman and a heavenly plant with blossoming flowers, slinking in the garden of the mind.”

Mind Earth Young Poetry Flower Mountain Garden Rivers Plant Heavenly Poetry Is Charming Young Women Lofty Blossoming

Author:Manmohan Acharya

“Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on cars, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order.”

“In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.”

Men Young Poetry He Man Poet Died Survived

Author:Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

“Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended.”

Young Poetry Church Judging Lonely Empty Green Lays Hills Bells Ignored Watchers Young And Old Unfeeling Church Bells Green Hills

Author:Pete Townshend

“I stood in your doorway this morning dreaming you’d turn around you’d tilt your head you’d softly whisper ”stay” or that you’d grab my arms to shake me while asking what the hell are we doing we love each other and this is not right so we will make this work now stay! You poured your coffee. Stirred the spoon like a crystal man with your back to me and not a sound. the fridge humming elegies while the clock ticked on and the streets are so clean here people rushing to work and maybe I should be too by now at this age this stage this town. I will stand in that doorway dreaming for many nights to come.”

Love Young Poetry Loss Sadness Poem Sad Heartbreak Memory Coffee Heartache Breakup Lost Love Dreaming Break Up Regrets Breaking Up Stay Nights

Author:Charlotte Eriksson