Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a
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Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no p
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There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.
I have a carpe diem mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet.
Each man carries within him the soul of a poet wh
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Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.
Music is the poetry of the air.
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of
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Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic
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Besides the autumn poets sing,
A few prosaic days
A little this side of the snow
And that side of the haze.
Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to pap
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Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wo
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the p
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Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought of the dull, commonplace rich.
It takes most men five years to recover from a co
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It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
As the poet said, Only God can make a tree&#
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As the poet said, Only God can make a tree - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never
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To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
The fairy poet takes a sheet
Of moonbeam, sil
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The fairy poet takes a sheet
Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet,
His pen a point of light.
In college, Yuppies major in business administrat
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In college, Yuppies major in business administration. If to meet certain requirements they have to take a liberal arts course, they take Business Poetry.
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and w
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
I am what the librarians have made me with a litt
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I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets.
There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentimen
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There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
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