Posts Tagged ‘Poetry’

Quotations On Poetry

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
  • “Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.  Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.  Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. “

- Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered

  • “Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”

- W.B. Yeats

  • “The distinction between historian and poet is not in the one writing prose and the other verse… the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be.  Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.”

- Aristotle, On Poetics

Paper Boats- By Rabindranath Tagore

Friday, February 6th, 2009

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Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running
stream.
In bid black letters I write my name on them and the name of
the village where I live.
I hope that someone in some strange land will find them and
know who I am.
I load my little boats with shiuli flower from our garden, and
hope that these blooms of the dawn will be carried safely to land
in the night. (more…)

The Garden of love

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

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I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And “Thou shalt not” writ over the door;
So I turned to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore; (more…)