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Letter "P" » Poetry
«Most wretched men are cradled to poetry by wrong: they learn in suffering what they teach in song»
«My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.»
«Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.»
Author: Wallace Stevens
(Poet)
| About:
Poetry,
Reading
| Keywords:
bottom, echoes, familiar, listening, On Your Toes, The Bottom, toes, Wade, waded, wades, wading
«My arms have mutinied against me ? brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.»
Author: Wilfred Owen
(Poet, Soldier)
| About:
Death,
Poetry,
World War I
| Keywords:
brutes, mutinies, squads
«Move him into the sun ?Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even in France,Until this morning and this snow.»
«Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do»
«Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.»
«Means not, but blunders round about a meaning; And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad»
«Narcotics cannot still the toothThat Nibbles at the soul»
«'Make a remark,' said the Red Queen; 'it's ridiculous to leave all the conversation to the pudding!'»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
| About:
Humor,
Poetry,
Surrealism
| Keywords:
pudding, puddings, queen, red, remark, The Conversation
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