“I rhyme for fun.” -Robert Burns (1759 - 1796): “Epistle to James Smith” (1786)
“I still believe poetry is a kind of magic.” -Edward Field (born 1924): “A Frieze for a Temple of Love” (1998), page 201
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“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” -Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
“If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can be put together a thousand different ways, a thousand, thousand . . . more.” -Karla Kuskin (1932 - 2009)
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“It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882): “Essays: Second Series” (1842), ‘The Poet’
Billy: What is your favorite one-word poem?
Jacob: “Sunshine.”
Billy: Mine’s “Hippopotamus.”
“Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.” -Robert Gilfillan
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The world is full of poetry.
The air is living with its spirit;
and the waves dance
to the music of its melodies
And sparkle in its brightness.
-James Percival (James Gates Percival (1795 - 1856))
“It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.” -Hector Hugh Monro (1870 - 1916): “Reginald” (1904), ‘Reginald’s Rubaiyat’
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“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” -David Carradine (born John Arthur Carradine (1936 - 2009))
Cats
Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
Less than themselves.
By A. S. J. Tessimond: “Cats” (1934), page 20
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There are said to be no words in the English language that rhyme with month, orange, purple, and silver. Unless, of course, someone like you makes up new words.
“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.” -Edmond de Goncourt (Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt (1822 - 1896))
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“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.” -John Adams (1735 - 1826): letter to John Quincy Adams (14 May 1781)
As I Was Falling Down The Stair
As I was falling down the stair
I met a bump that wasn’t there;
It might have put me on the shelf
Except I wasn’t there myself.
By Hughes Mearns (1875 - 1965)
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“By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors.” -Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
“Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it’s misty, write about the mist. The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.” -Masaoka Shiki
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I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
-Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918): “Trees” (1913)
“I do not care. If it does not rhyme, it is not a poem.” [English]
“Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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Aspire, Break Bounds.
Endeavor To Be Good,
And Better Still, Best.
-Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
Overheard: Poems that do not rhyme . . . are written by lazy poets.
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There Isn’t Time!
There isn’t time, there isn’t time
To do the things I want to do,
With all the mountain-tops to climb,
And all the woods to wander through,
And all the seas to sail upon,
And everywhere there is to go,
And all the people, everyone
Who lives upon the Earth, to know.
There’s only time, there’s only time
To know a few, and do a few,
And then sit down and make a rhyme
About the rest I want to do.
By Eleanor Farjeon (1881 - 1965)
Wilhelm: The poet Robert Burns wrote, “To a Field Mouse.”
Wilbert: And did he get an answer?
“Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings.” -W. H. Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973))
Question not, but live and labor
Till yon goal be won,
Helping every feeble neighbor,
Seeking help from none;
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own.
-Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833 - 1870): “Ye Wearie Wayfarer,” Fytte VIII
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Deborah: How do poets say hello?
Barbara: Hey, haven’t we metaphor?
Jane: How do poets say goodbye?
Jean: “I’d like to linger a little longer but it’s getting alliter-late.”
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You speak
As one who fed on poetry.
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)): “Richelieu” (1839) play, Act I, scene I
“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” -Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry ‘Don’ Marquis (1878 - 1937)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
The poet and ornithologist
Differ in ways absurd.
One writes - “The bird is on the wing”;
The other answers - “No such thing!
The wing is on the bird.”
-Author Unknown
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Duncan: Why was John Keats always hounded by creditors?
Candace: Because he Ode so much.
How are poems made? Poems seldom pop out of people’s heads in a complete and finished form. Usually a subject or a short rhyme occurs to someone, and the person puts it in writing, then adds more lines, and then changes the words and punctuation many times before a poem begins to take form. Often poems are set aside for a time, and then the poet returns to them, reads them, and makes more changes. What eventually happens is one of three things: 1. the poet says to him or herself that a poem is good enough, though perhaps not perfect, and leaves it as is; 2. the poet gives up and discards the poem; 3. the poet finds the poem to be perfect and proudly proclaims it to the entire world or to a somewhat smaller audience.
I Saw A Man Pursuing The Horizon
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
“It is futile,” I said,
“You can never -”
“You lie,” he cried,
And ran on.
By Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)
“I still believe poetry is a kind of magic.” -Edward Field (born 1924): “A Frieze for a Temple of Love” (1998), page 201
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“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” -Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
“If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can be put together a thousand different ways, a thousand, thousand . . . more.” -Karla Kuskin (1932 - 2009)
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“It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882): “Essays: Second Series” (1842), ‘The Poet’
Billy: What is your favorite one-word poem?
Jacob: “Sunshine.”
Billy: Mine’s “Hippopotamus.”
“Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.” -Robert Gilfillan
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The world is full of poetry.
The air is living with its spirit;
and the waves dance
to the music of its melodies
And sparkle in its brightness.
-James Percival (James Gates Percival (1795 - 1856))
“It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.” -Hector Hugh Monro (1870 - 1916): “Reginald” (1904), ‘Reginald’s Rubaiyat’
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“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” -David Carradine (born John Arthur Carradine (1936 - 2009))
Cats
Cats, no less liquid than their shadows,
Offer no angles to the wind.
They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes
Less than themselves.
By A. S. J. Tessimond: “Cats” (1934), page 20
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There are said to be no words in the English language that rhyme with month, orange, purple, and silver. Unless, of course, someone like you makes up new words.
“A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.” -Edmond de Goncourt (Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt (1822 - 1896))
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“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.” -John Adams (1735 - 1826): letter to John Quincy Adams (14 May 1781)
As I Was Falling Down The Stair
As I was falling down the stair
I met a bump that wasn’t there;
It might have put me on the shelf
Except I wasn’t there myself.
By Hughes Mearns (1875 - 1965)
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“By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors.” -Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800 - 1859)
“Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it’s misty, write about the mist. The materials for poetry are all about you in profusion.” -Masaoka Shiki
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I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
-Joyce Kilmer (1886 - 1918): “Trees” (1913)
“I do not care. If it does not rhyme, it is not a poem.” [English]
“Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.” [Latin]
-Author Unknown
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Aspire, Break Bounds.
Endeavor To Be Good,
And Better Still, Best.
-Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
Overheard: Poems that do not rhyme . . . are written by lazy poets.
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There Isn’t Time!
There isn’t time, there isn’t time
To do the things I want to do,
With all the mountain-tops to climb,
And all the woods to wander through,
And all the seas to sail upon,
And everywhere there is to go,
And all the people, everyone
Who lives upon the Earth, to know.
There’s only time, there’s only time
To know a few, and do a few,
And then sit down and make a rhyme
About the rest I want to do.
By Eleanor Farjeon (1881 - 1965)
Wilhelm: The poet Robert Burns wrote, “To a Field Mouse.”
Wilbert: And did he get an answer?
“Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings.” -W. H. Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973))
Question not, but live and labor
Till yon goal be won,
Helping every feeble neighbor,
Seeking help from none;
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own.
-Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833 - 1870): “Ye Wearie Wayfarer,” Fytte VIII
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Deborah: How do poets say hello?
Barbara: Hey, haven’t we metaphor?
Jane: How do poets say goodbye?
Jean: “I’d like to linger a little longer but it’s getting alliter-late.”
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You speak
As one who fed on poetry.
-Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)): “Richelieu” (1839) play, Act I, scene I
“Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” -Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry ‘Don’ Marquis (1878 - 1937)): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
The poet and ornithologist
Differ in ways absurd.
One writes - “The bird is on the wing”;
The other answers - “No such thing!
The wing is on the bird.”
-Author Unknown
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Duncan: Why was John Keats always hounded by creditors?
Candace: Because he Ode so much.
How are poems made? Poems seldom pop out of people’s heads in a complete and finished form. Usually a subject or a short rhyme occurs to someone, and the person puts it in writing, then adds more lines, and then changes the words and punctuation many times before a poem begins to take form. Often poems are set aside for a time, and then the poet returns to them, reads them, and makes more changes. What eventually happens is one of three things: 1. the poet says to him or herself that a poem is good enough, though perhaps not perfect, and leaves it as is; 2. the poet gives up and discards the poem; 3. the poet finds the poem to be perfect and proudly proclaims it to the entire world or to a somewhat smaller audience.
I Saw A Man Pursuing The Horizon
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
“It is futile,” I said,
“You can never -”
“You lie,” he cried,
And ran on.
By Stephen Crane (1871 - 1900)
“A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.” -Author Unknown
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P
P’s a poetical bore
Who recites his own lines by the score.
The ladies, poor dears,
Are all moved to tears
And strong men are moved - to the door.
By Oliver Herford (Oliver Brooke Herford (1860 or 1863 - 1935))
Poetic Outlook. A University of North Carolina English instructor introduced to his class what he termed, “one of the finest, most elegant lines of poetry in the English language.” He had duly recorded it in all of his notebooks as a constant reminder of its beauty. “Walk with light!” he quoted, and then repeated softly and blissfully to himself, “Walk with light . . . now isn’t that a wonderful thing to say to someone?” The class agreed, of course, and wished to know the author. “I suppose it’s anonymous,” said the instructor. “It’s written on a sign at the intersection of Franklin Street and Fourteenth Avenue.”
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A ‘poet laureate’ is a person chosen to voice the sentiments of a group or organization, such as a government or a private club, in poetry.
“I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.” -Thornton Wilder (Thornton Niven Wilder (1897 - 1975))
“If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.” -Robert Graves (Robert von Ranke Graves (1895 - 1985)): “Mammon and the Black Goddess” (1965), ‘Mammon’
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“If you want to write poetry you must earn a living some other way.” -T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965))
Lila: Why are poets poor?
Silas: Because rhyme does not pay.
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“A backwards poet writes inverse.” -Author Unknown
“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.” -Paul Valéry (Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules ‘Paul’ Valéry (1871 - 1945)): as attributed in “The Reporter” (1958)
“Poetry equals the best words in the best order.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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P
P’s a poetical bore
Who recites his own lines by the score.
The ladies, poor dears,
Are all moved to tears
And strong men are moved - to the door.
By Oliver Herford (Oliver Brooke Herford (1860 or 1863 - 1935))
Poetic Outlook. A University of North Carolina English instructor introduced to his class what he termed, “one of the finest, most elegant lines of poetry in the English language.” He had duly recorded it in all of his notebooks as a constant reminder of its beauty. “Walk with light!” he quoted, and then repeated softly and blissfully to himself, “Walk with light . . . now isn’t that a wonderful thing to say to someone?” The class agreed, of course, and wished to know the author. “I suppose it’s anonymous,” said the instructor. “It’s written on a sign at the intersection of Franklin Street and Fourteenth Avenue.”
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A ‘poet laureate’ is a person chosen to voice the sentiments of a group or organization, such as a government or a private club, in poetry.
“I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.” -Thornton Wilder (Thornton Niven Wilder (1897 - 1975))
“If there’s no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.” -Robert Graves (Robert von Ranke Graves (1895 - 1985)): “Mammon and the Black Goddess” (1965), ‘Mammon’
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“If you want to write poetry you must earn a living some other way.” -T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965))
Lila: Why are poets poor?
Silas: Because rhyme does not pay.
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“A backwards poet writes inverse.” -Author Unknown
“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.” -Paul Valéry (Ambroise Paul Toussaint Jules ‘Paul’ Valéry (1871 - 1945)): as attributed in “The Reporter” (1958)
“Poetry equals the best words in the best order.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
The Zigzag Boy And Girl
I know a little zigzag boy,
Who goes this way and that;
He never knows just where he puts
His coat or shoes or hat.
I know a little zigzag girl,
Who flutters here and there;
She never knows just where to find
Her brush to fix her hair.
If you are not a zigzag child,
You’ll have no cause to say
That you forgot, for you will know
Where things are put away.
By Author Unknown
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I know a little zigzag boy,
Who goes this way and that;
He never knows just where he puts
His coat or shoes or hat.
I know a little zigzag girl,
Who flutters here and there;
She never knows just where to find
Her brush to fix her hair.
If you are not a zigzag child,
You’ll have no cause to say
That you forgot, for you will know
Where things are put away.
By Author Unknown
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“The three r’s of poetry are rhyme, rhythm, and reason. To leave out any one of them is to risk writing nonsense or a garbled jumble of words.” -David Hugh Beaumont (born 1966)
“Our poets . . . spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers.” -Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989): “Vox Clamantis in Deserto” (English: “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”) (1989), chapter 5: ‘On Writing and Writers, Books and Art’
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Epigram From The French
Sir, I admit your gen’ral rule,
That evr’y poet is a fool:
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.
By Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744): as published in “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift” (about 1710 - 1730), Volume 17
“Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.” -Adrian Mitchell: “Poems” (1964), ‘Preface’
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Some poems rhyme
Some poems have titles
Some poems have authors
And then there are ones like this one -
The nutty nonconformist poem
By an anonymous poet.
Free verse: Verse that follows no particular form, meter, or rhyme scheme.
“I would as soon wright free verse as play tennis with the net down.” -Robert Frost (Robert Lee Frost (1874 - 1963))
“It’s silly to suggest the writing of poetry as something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing emotional experience that wrings you. I have no fancy ideas about poetry. It doesn’t come to you on the wings of a dove. It’s something you work hard at.” -Louise Bogan
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“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.” -T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965))
“Poetry has been to me ‘its own exceeding great reward;’ it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.” -Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
And now for some nice, relaxing poetry to soothe your frazzled mind . . .
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“Our poets . . . spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers.” -Edward Abbey (1927 - 1989): “Vox Clamantis in Deserto” (English: “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”) (1989), chapter 5: ‘On Writing and Writers, Books and Art’
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Epigram From The French
Sir, I admit your gen’ral rule,
That evr’y poet is a fool:
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.
By Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744): as published in “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift” (about 1710 - 1730), Volume 17
“Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.” -Adrian Mitchell: “Poems” (1964), ‘Preface’
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Some poems rhyme
Some poems have titles
Some poems have authors
And then there are ones like this one -
The nutty nonconformist poem
By an anonymous poet.
Free verse: Verse that follows no particular form, meter, or rhyme scheme.
“I would as soon wright free verse as play tennis with the net down.” -Robert Frost (Robert Lee Frost (1874 - 1963))
“It’s silly to suggest the writing of poetry as something ethereal, a sort of soul-crashing emotional experience that wrings you. I have no fancy ideas about poetry. It doesn’t come to you on the wings of a dove. It’s something you work hard at.” -Louise Bogan
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“As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug’s game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.” -T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888 - 1965))
“Poetry has been to me ‘its own exceeding great reward;’ it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.” -Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
“To have great poets, there must be great audiences, too.” -Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
And now for some nice, relaxing poetry to soothe your frazzled mind . . .
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A Song Of Thanks
It’s sensible that icicles
Hang downward as they grow,
For I would hate to step on one
That’s buried in the snow.
It’s really best that tides come in
And then return to sea;
For if they kept on coming in,
How wet we all would be.
I’ve often thought tomatoes are
Much better red than blue,
A blue tomato is a food
I’d certainly eschew.
It’s best of all that everyone’s
So tolerant today
That I can write this sort of stuff
And not get put away.
By William Cole
It’s sensible that icicles
Hang downward as they grow,
For I would hate to step on one
That’s buried in the snow.
It’s really best that tides come in
And then return to sea;
For if they kept on coming in,
How wet we all would be.
I’ve often thought tomatoes are
Much better red than blue,
A blue tomato is a food
I’d certainly eschew.
It’s best of all that everyone’s
So tolerant today
That I can write this sort of stuff
And not get put away.
By William Cole
Abecedarius
A verse called an abecedarius
Begins every line with the various
Consecutive letters.
Demanding, these fetters
Encumber - it’s rarely hilarious.
By Author Unknown
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“For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.” -Maxwell Bodenheim
“Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe and restores to us forgotten paradises.” -Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
Lyric poetry, or lyrical poetry, is meant to be sung to the accompaniment a musical instrument called a lyre.
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“Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.” -Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
A verse called an abecedarius
Begins every line with the various
Consecutive letters.
Demanding, these fetters
Encumber - it’s rarely hilarious.
By Author Unknown
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“For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.” -Maxwell Bodenheim
“Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe and restores to us forgotten paradises.” -Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
Lyric poetry, or lyrical poetry, is meant to be sung to the accompaniment a musical instrument called a lyre.
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“Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.” -Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
I’m Nobody! Who Are You?
I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us - don’t tell!
They’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog,
To tell your name the livelong day,
To an admiring bog!
By Emily Dickinson (Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830 - 1886))
I’m nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there’s a pair of us - don’t tell!
They’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog,
To tell your name the livelong day,
To an admiring bog!
By Emily Dickinson (Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830 - 1886))
“My friend said to me, ‘What rhymes with orange?’ I said, ‘No it doesn’t!’” -Author Unknown
“I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.” -Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
“‘Poetry,’ said Emilia, ‘seems like talking on tiptoe.’” -George Meredith (1828 - 1909): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822): “A Defence of Poetry” (1821)
My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.
-Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): “A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers (1849),” ‘My Life Has Been a Poem I Would Have Writ’
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - 347 B.C.E.): “The Republic” (about 380 B.C.E.), book II, section 5
“I’ve written some poetry I don’t understand myself.” -Carl Sandburg (Carl Augustus Sandburg (1878 - 1967))
It matters not what you do -
Make a nation or a shoe;
For he who does an honest thing
In God’s pure sight is ranked a king.
-John Parnell
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“A poet’s ink never dries.” -Marie Summers
We are Make Fun Of Life! . . . everything’s better with a bit of poetry . . .
“I know that poetry is indispensable, but to what I could not say.” -Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
“‘Poetry,’ said Emilia, ‘seems like talking on tiptoe.’” -George Meredith (1828 - 1909): as quoted in Herbert V. Prochnow and Herbert V. Prochnow, Junior, editors: “A Treasury of Humorous Quotations” (1969)
“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” -Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822): “A Defence of Poetry” (1821)
My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.
-Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862): “A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers (1849),” ‘My Life Has Been a Poem I Would Have Writ’
“Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.” -Plato (about 427 B.C.E. - 347 B.C.E.): “The Republic” (about 380 B.C.E.), book II, section 5
“I’ve written some poetry I don’t understand myself.” -Carl Sandburg (Carl Augustus Sandburg (1878 - 1967))
It matters not what you do -
Make a nation or a shoe;
For he who does an honest thing
In God’s pure sight is ranked a king.
-John Parnell
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“A poet’s ink never dries.” -Marie Summers
We are Make Fun Of Life! . . . everything’s better with a bit of poetry . . .
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