random poem

Her Voice
by Oscar Wilde

The wild bee reels from bough to bough
With his furry coat and his gauzy wing
Now in a lily-cup, and now
Setting a jacinth bell a-swing
In his wandering;
Sit closer love: it was here I trow
I made that vow

Swore that two lives should be like one
As long as the sea-gull loved the sea
As long as the sunflower sought the sun
It shall be, I said, for eternity
'Twixt you and me!
Dear friend, those times are over and done;
Love's web is spun.

Look upward where the poplar trees
Sway and sway in the summer air
Here in the valley never a breeze
Scatters the thistledown, but there
Great winds blow fair
From the mighty murmuring mystical seas
And the wave-lashed leas.

Look upward where the white gull screams
What does it see that we do not see?
Is that a star? or the lamp that gleams
On some outward voyaging argosy
Ah! can it be
We have lived our lives in a land of dreams!
How sad it seems.

Sweet, there is nothing left to say
But this, that love is never lost,
Keen winter stabs the breasts of May
Whose crimson roses burst his frost,
Ships tempest-tossed
Will find a harbour in some bay,
And so we may.

And there is nothing left to do
But to kiss once again, and part,
Nay, there is nothing we should rue,
I have my beauty, - you your Art,
Nay, do not start,
One world was not enough for two
Like me and you.

Quotes

Voltaire: Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls.

Robert Frost: Writing a poem is discovering.

Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Dennis Gabor: Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Quentin Tarantino: You can't write poetry on the computer.

Leonard Cohen: Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

W.B. Yeats: Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.

Aristotle: 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.

Oscar Wilde: A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Abbe Yeux-verdi: The smell of ink is intoxicating to me - others may have wine, but I have poetry.

Leonardo da Vinci: Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.

Salvatore Quasimodo: Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.

Joseph Roux: Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

Robert Frost: Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Carl Sandburg: I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.

John Keats: The poetry of the earth is never dead.

Rita Dove: Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.