Category: poet
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.
Maya Angelou
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Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
Robert Frost
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Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge.
Lord Byron
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You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Maya Angelou
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt Whitman
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
Yusef Komunyakaa
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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.
Maya Angelou
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Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Alexander Pope