“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.” David Carradine
“Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard & Poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.” Leonardo Da Vinci
“Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.” Eugenio Montale
“I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.” Dead Poets Society
“Prose = words in their best order: Poetry = the best words in the best order.”
“A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.” Jean Cocteau
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” William Butler Yeats
“Dancing is the poetry of the foot.” John Dryden
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” Robert Frost
“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.” Carl Sandburg
Oh, were it as easy as a pen and a piece of paper.
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For me, it is easier on the computer than the old way of pen and paper. Some days it is easy and other days, not so much, but we love it either way, right?
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Beautiful, Julaina, and just what I needed to see and read right now. Thank you. I especially loved Da Vinci’s words.
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Yes, that’s a good one. I like Sandburg’s the best.
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