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The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their...
When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a...
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.
I think continually of those who were truly great -
The names of those who in their lives fought for life,
Who...
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife a tyrannical...
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
Source: In Webster's...
The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.
Source: The Quaker Graveyard in...
If we see light at the end of the tunnel it is the light of an oncoming train.
Is getting well ever an art
Or art a way to get well.
Source: Unwanted'
--...
The monument sticks like a fishbone
in the city's throat.
Source: For the Union...
Without a wish, without a will,
I stood upon that silent hill
And stared into the sky until
My eyes were...
Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
Source: In
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Source: The Skylark and Other...
The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Twould ring the bells of Heaven
The wildest peal for years,
If Parson lost his senses
And people came to...
Why came I so untimely forth
Into a world which, wanting thee,
Could entertain us with no worth
Or shadow of...
The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest,
Savours too much of private interest.
Poets that lasting marble seek
Must carve in Latin or in Greek.
Source: Of...
Though with judgment we on things reflect,
Our will determines, not our intellect.
Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly...