Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. – Percy Bysshe Shelley Category: Poetry
I dont look on poetry as closed works. I feel theyre going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. – John Ashbery Category: Poetry
[P]oetry shares our misery, it is agitated with all our uneasiness; like us, it goes, comes, flies, never rests. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847) Category: Poetry
Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous. – Confucius Category: Learning
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. – Marcus Aurelius Category: Death
