Tag: quotes
member name: Alison H.
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November 04, 2009 01:32 AM EST --
Emerson's essay was first published in 1844. Many think that Walt Whitman fulfilled Emerson's call for an American poet in the 1800's, and that Robert Frost fulfilled in the 1900's...
Theologians . . .
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April 16, 2009 05:58 PM EDT --
If poetry breaks its covenant with truth and justice, it has failed. --Seamus Heaney, The Sunday Tribune , 7 April 1996
It's important that it's clear that the poet is not inventing the value . . .
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January 08, 2009 05:52 PM EST --
Kimberly Ripley's current and excellent "Gather Essentials" article, in which she told of the life of Robert Frost, inspired me to hunt for some of his quotes about poetry. . . .
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June 12, 2008 01:23 AM EDT --
I hope you will enjoy these quotes and poems by one of my favorite poets.....
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I don't create poetry, I create myself, for me my poems are a way to me.
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November 21, 2007 02:30 PM EST --
Thanksgiving may be a time to express gratitude and love...but getting together with friends and relatives at holiday times is not always easy. There may be hidden issues and agendas and feelings . . .
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December 09, 2008 08:13 PM EST --
In her 1991 book, Women, Anger, and Depression, Lois P. Frankel discussed the need for women to nurture themselves. In her later book, Kindling the Spirit: Acts of Kindness and Words of Courage for . . .
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June 15, 2009 11:53 AM EDT --
Poetry is an antidote to the poison-level at which we often consent to live. --Penelope Shuttle
Poetry has to a large degree resumed its 19th-century role as a comfort and consolation, a retreat from . . .
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November 08, 2007 06:29 PM EST --
As the holiday season draws near, there's a good chance some of us may be spending time with relatives. Hopefully this is a good thing. Is all well between you and your relatives? . . .
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July 09, 2009 07:13 PM EDT --
How do work and poetry fit together in your life? Is it a fruitful collaboration or discouraging? Here some poets express their thoughts on the subject...
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October 29, 2007 04:45 PM EDT --
I found a book at a thrift store the other day: Momilies: As My Mother Used to Say... edited by Michele Slung, Ballantine Books, 1986. It's got all those little Mom-homilies that Moms . . .
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February 01, 2008 11:12 PM EST --
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen
There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, . . .
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December 06, 2007 04:52 PM EST --
These pithy observations came in on the e-mail today.....
GREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED:
1) No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats.
2) When your Mom is mad . . .
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January 23, 2008 03:26 AM EST --
Secret of the Ages, by Robert Collier, first published in 1948, is one of the classic genre books about how to be successful. Napoleon Hill is another popular writer on this theme. There are many . . .
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April 17, 2008 12:35 AM EDT --
I write my poems on scraps of paper because I want to carry them in my address book. I'm likely to read them at a moment's notice.
--Gwendolyn Brooks
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April 22, 2008 03:39 AM EDT --
I woke up this morning with the two last lines of this poem going through my mind. After some searching, I found the poem....
Invocation
There is a poem on the way,
There is a poem all . . .
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October 27, 2008 11:06 PM EDT --
Thanks are due to Kathryn Esplin and Nancy L. for reminding us that it is Sylvia Plath's birthday today (October 27th, as I write this). Kathryn described her life, and Nancy imbedded a youtube . . .
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November 15, 2008 01:43 PM EST --
Welcome to Poetry Quotes.......today's featured poet is Mary Karr. Karr's first book of poetry, Viper Rum , knocked me out with its direct verse and her essay on poetics. Though she considers . . .
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November 19, 2007 02:26 PM EST --
A material evil done by a person does not return to the evildoer, bu the evil feeling which was created by the sinful deed will fester in his soul and sooner or later makes him suffer.
If . . .
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October 29, 2007 02:40 PM EDT --
Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.
--Spanish Proverb
When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey.
--Arab Proverb
When there is no enemy within, . . .
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November 29, 2007 10:11 PM EST --
When a humble person forgets himself, he is united with God.
People who try to force circumstances become their slaves. Those who use them become their masters. --The Talmud
There is nothing in . . .
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