Reads tagged with “poetry”
So You Want To Be a Writer: Charles Bukowski’s No-Nonsense Antidote to the “Tortured Genius” Mythos of Creativity
“unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it.”
Antilamentation: An Antidote to Regret from Poet Dorianne Laux
“You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake.”
Advice to Lovers: Century-Old Poetic Wisdom from Robert Graves
“Love is not kindly nor yet grim / But does to you as you to him.”
Ray Bradbury’s Unpublished Poems and His Meditation on Science vs. Religion
“It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity.”
29-Year-Old Patti Smith’s Poetic and Irreverent Monologue on Women and the Universe
“If you’re not into transforming stuff into art / Don’t worry about it / Just keep doing it and keep doing…”
Sailing to Byzantium: 13 Songs Based on the Poetry of W. B. Yeats
“A pity beyond all telling / Is hid in the heart of love”
Hand-Lettered Illustrations of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry
“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant . . .The Truth must dazzle gradually / Or every man be blind”
Pioneers! O Space Pioneers! A Walt Whitman + NASA Mashup
“Conquering, holding, daring, venturing as we go the unknown ways, Pioneers! O pioneers!”
A Few Don’ts for Those Beginning to Write Verse from Ezra Pound
“Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.”
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