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  • I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

    "Phenomenal Woman" l. 6 (1978)
  • That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

    Heart   Poetry   Source  
    Walter Savage Landor (1834). “Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby and Silas Gough, Clerk: Before the Worshipful Sir Thomas Lucy, Knight, Touching Deer-stealing on the 19th Day of September in the Year of Grace 1582, Now First Published from Original Papers”, p.177
  • Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

    Running   Witty   Time  
    "If - " st. 4 (1910)
  • Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

    "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)
  • Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

    " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20
  • Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

    Writing   Poetry   Ashes  
    "My favourite word in songwriting history is 'that'" by Laura Barton, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2007.
  • Do not go gentle into that good night.

    "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)
  • i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

    E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck
  • How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

    1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.
  • If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

    Poetry   Emotion   Found  
  • But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

    "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)
  • But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.

    "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.
  • And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ]

    Stars   Heart   Wonder  
    E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck
  • A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

    Love   Life   Writing  
    Robert Frost, Lawrance Roger Thompson (1964). “Selected letters”
  • I know why the caged bird sings.

    Title of book (1969), taken from the last line of "Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar in Lyrics of Hearthside (1899). Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 567:10
  • The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

    Essays in Criticism Second Series, "The Study of Poetry" (1888)
  • I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

    1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.
  • here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

    E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck
  • The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

  • The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.

    Play   Roots   Degrees  
    May Swenson, Gardner McFall (1998). “Made with words”, Univ of Michigan Pr
  • Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way.

    Paul Caponigro (1972). “Paul Caponigro”
  • I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.

    "Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary" edited by Daniel Dulany Addison, (Ch. 5 : The Beginning of the War), 1895.
  • Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

    c.1860 Complete Poems, no.254 (first published 1891).
  • The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

    Tattoo   Running   Taken  
    "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)
  • I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk of the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.84
  • Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

  • Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

  • Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

    Life   Poetry   World  
    A Defence of Poetry (written 1821) See Auden 22; Auden 39; Andrew Fletcher 1; Samuel Johnson 22; Twain 104
  • How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

    Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)
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