Part of a moon was falling down the west, Dragging the whole sky with it to the hills. Its light poured softly in her lap. She saw And spread her apron to it. She put out her hand Among the harp-like morning-glory strings, Taut with the dew from gard...
You came to my life with what you were bringing, made of light and bread and shadow I expected you, and Like this I need you, Like this I love you, and to those who want to hear tomorrow that which I will not tell them, let them read it here, and let...
I primarily use poetry as a purge, a self-medication device when I’m in the depths of loneliness, anxiety or in the throes of depression. When I’m lost in the darkness of mental illness, I spill forth a deluge of words and prose that are oftentim...
The Zen Monk Kyō Has Changed His Name to Mujū Dōryū. I Wrote This Verse to Celebrate The Great Prospects That Lie Before Him Unwillingness to remain in the ruts of former Buddha patriarchs Unsurpassed aspiration and fierce passion to achieve the ...
Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters may be supposed to have on a Browning or a Tennyson. Indeed it seems to me that an exact homology exists between painti...
Elizabeth Bennet: And that put paid to it. I wonder who first discovered the power of poetry in driving away love? Mr. Darcy: I thought that poetry was the food of love. Elizabeth Bennet: Of a fine stout love, it may. But if it is only a vague inclin...
The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Armani's clothes are beautiful and modern and I love him.
I do find modern jazz quite tricky.
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
I would loathe to work on modern films.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
I never had much education in English poetry as such.
Dreams are the poetry of life to be written with love and actions.
An art is a poetry but only a few can read it.
Life is a never-ending poetry of love.
Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.
