982 Quotes About Poet

To a poet, his works aren't just a reflection of life itself, but an entire life in the boundless invisible. Isn't the heavenly oasis of all human emotions - the soul - invisible? I reaped: We cannot see the wind, but we can feel it, we cannot see the warmth of the sun, but we can also feel it. This bond between nature and humans is the best proof of the Creator’s existence.

In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words.

Life Cycles by Stewart StaffordFrom fair youth’s day,To dark-spotted age,The blooms of May,Usher out winter’s sullen maze.When the bars of the juvenile cage are splayed,And our stars have run their course,The debt of carefree times gets repaid,As we from this earthly plain divorce.We crawl to walk and stoop alone,As the dead remain uncured,Until Time grants us further loans,Immortality is a bloodline secured.© Stewart Stafford, 2021. All rights reserved.

Did anyone think this canon of druggie men were out of control? Only in the most admirable of ways! Out of control like a shaman or a space explorer, like a magician sawing himself in half. Out of control like a poet.

I dream of a quiet manwho explains nothing and defendsnothing, but only knowswhere the rarest wildflowersare blooming, and who goes,and finds that he is smilingnot by his own will.Sabbaths 1999 II

The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet whose death came carelessly, by mistake, and too soon.

How—I didn't know anyword for it—how "unlikely". . .How had I come to be here,like them, and overheara cry of pain that could havegot loud and worse but hadn't?

The poets and writers are born stylists!

Some rhyme a neebor’s name to lash;Some rhyme, (vain thought!) for needfu’ cash;Some rhyme to court the countra clash,An’ raise a din;For me, an aim I never fash;I rhyme for fun.