Tag: poets

4 posts since August 2012 RSS

  • February 26th, 2013 1:46pm

    I will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air, alive, with closed eyes.

    — E.E. Cummings   (via fernsandmoss)

  • November 12th, 2012 9:28pm


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    “Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.”

    Heinrich Heine 

  • October 18th, 2012 7:50am

    A prison becomes a home if you have the key.

    —

    Bohemian poet George Sterling’s purported response when asked about the cyanide pill he carried for years. He eventually killed himself with it.

    (via squashed)

  • August 25th, 2012 1:59pm

    Novelists and short-story writers are not under the same obligations as poets to reinforce sense with sound. In prose, on the whole the rhythm is all right if it isn’t clearly wrong.

    — Janet Burroway – Writing Fiction; A guide to narrative craft