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And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

The candle glimmers but an hour. The night Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know The tragedy of human love and need? Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

Be sure that head and heart were laid In wisdom down, content to die. Be sure he faced the Starless Sky Unduped, unmurmuring, unafraid. (“The Passing of Bierce”)

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

Or sit they girt by laws unknown Whereto the senses serve as bars – With fire of unrecorded stars That light a heaven not our own? (“The Testimony of the Suns”)

The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror

Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human lives.

A Very First Book Of Poems: Heartbreak

(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious man turns to the idea of God.

Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande

Embrace all emotions: sadness, happiness, sorrow, hate, love, prejudice, fear; they are weapons against our greatest enemy: indifference.

Wanderlust and the Whiskey Bottle Parallel: Poems and Stories

If you don't look before the dusk and beyond the dawn, you won't be able to see the sun. (Soar)

Yours, poetically: Special Deluxe Edition of Selected Poems and Quotes

Song falls silent, music is dumb, But the air burns with their fragrance, And white winter, on its knees, Observes everything with reverent attention.

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we had ne'er been broken-hearted

Collected Poems of Robert Burns

Most people made comments on how I was the strongest woman they knew. That was before the title wave of disaster hit my charmed life.

Holiday Keepsakes: A Collection of Stories, Poems and Memories

Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when I became a poet and started answering, speaking back to his poems in ways that I had not before.

Natasha Trethewey

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Robert Frost

I dropped my hoe and ran into the house and started to write this poem, ' .’ It began as a celebration of wild geese. Eventually the geese flew out of the poem, but I like to think they left behind the sound of their beating wings.

Stanley Kunitz

Anything you want very badly is located outside of your comfort zone.

Oasis for My Soul: Poems and Inspirational Writings for Spiritual and Personal Growth

Between the poles of the conscious and the unconscious, there has the mind made a swing: Thereon hang all beings and all worlds, and that swing never ceases its sway. (pg. 16)

One Hundred Poems of Kabir

We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?

The Ordering of Love: The New and Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle

I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work.

Willie Nelson

I play with language a great deal in my poems, and I enjoy that. I try to condense language, that is, I try to express complicated but I hope real emotions as simply as possible. But that doesn't mean the poems are simple, just that they are as truth...

Anne Stevenson

Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very im...

James Laughlin