I realized poetrys the thing that I can do cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. – Philip Levine Category: Poetry
It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we cant do in prose. – Peter Davison Category: Poetry
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? – Walt Whitman Category: great
Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope. – Mahalia Jackson Category: Hope