#poetry

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Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly, to be fearful of the night.


Sarah Williams


#science #stars #love

Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering, hissed and hooted, stand and strive, until at last rage draw out of thee that dream-power which every night shows thee is thine own; a power transcending all limit and privacy, and by virtue of which a man is the conductor of the whole river of electricity.


Ralph Waldo Emerson


#inspiration #poetry #art

Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.


Paul Valéry


#poetry #art

Nursery-rhyme morality has gotten me into no end of trouble, largely because it is presented through such fine poetry. Nursery rhymes dramatize the eternal conflict between aesthetics and ethics in a manner that every child can appreciate. There isn’t an adult walking around today that hasn’t been psychologically devastated by them.


Bauvard


#funny #humor #morality #nursery-rhymes #poetry

This rootless shifting east and west I can't suppress a smile myself but how else can I make the whole world my home. If any of my old friends come around asking say I'm down at the river by the Second Fushimi Bridge.


Baisao


#rootlessness #home

What are you able to build with your blocks? Castles and palaces, temples and docks. Rain may keep raining, and others go roam, But I can be happy and building at home.


Robert Louis Stevenson


#home

Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.


Ralph Waldo Emerson


#create #inspiration #poetry #prose #write

Optimism / stung like grit in my swimsuit all the long ride home . . .


Lesley Wheeler


#home

For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.


Amy Lowell


#poetry #age

why can't you see i'm a kid', said the kid. Why try to make me like you? Why are you hurt when I don't cuddle? Why do you sigh when I splash through a puddle? Why do you scream when I do what I did? Im a kid.


Shel Silverstein


#poetry #humor