Sneelock
god
you're gonna break another heart
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Post by Sneelock on Nov 5, 2021 14:32:43 GMT
"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with" W.C. Fields
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Post by tory on Nov 5, 2021 15:42:20 GMT
I've been trying to promote Poetry to 15 year old boys
"The Poet is a liar who will always tell the truth" - Jean Cocteau
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned" - Paul Valery
"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money either" - Robert Graves
"Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" - T S Eliot
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason" - Novalis
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese" - G K Chesterton
"Poetry is what gets lost in translation" - Robert Frost
"Therefore is a word the poet must not know" - Andre Gide
"God is the perfect poet" - Robert Browning
"A Poet can survive everything except a misprint" - Oscar Wilde
"The poetry of the earth is never dead" - Keats
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Post by Charlie O. on Nov 5, 2021 16:55:28 GMT
Triggered by tory's post, the last line of a prose poem I wrote a paper on in high school:
"The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished." - Charles Baudelaire (in translation)
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Post by cousinlou on Nov 6, 2021 20:19:16 GMT
Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
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