#poe

l(a le af fa ll s)o ne li ne ss ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#poem #poem

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4) ↗

— William Shakespeare

#shakespeare

There is no greater sorrow Than to recall a happy time When miserable. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#italian-medieval-poetry #nostalgia #À-la-recherche-du-temps-perdu #sorrow

.....and I smile and know why people write music and paint and dance, lifted as if they can fly, because this ache crashing inside needs to be free. sometimes, love becomes a melody others hum for years. ↗

— Pat Mora

#love #poetry #art

...some say Twitter seems trite and lacks weightiness - but in actuality, it lends itself to poetry - it can be very compressed and intense... ↗

— John Geddes

#intense #poetry #trie #twitter #weightiness

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind. ↗

— Matsuo Bashō

#poetry #wind

. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what their concerns are, what their obsessions are, and what interests them. ↗

— Kim Addonizio

#poetry #writers #writing #obsession

and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive ↗

— Audre Lorde

#survival

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#wit #wit

Cada vez que te enamores no expliques a nadie nada, deja que el amor te invada sin entrar en pormenores ↗

— Mario Benedetti

#sin