139 Quotes About Verse

  • Author Adrienne Rich
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    If I could let you know - two women together is a worknothing in civilization ha made simple,two people together is a workheroic in its ordinariness, the slow-picked, halting traverse of a pitchwhere the fiercest attention becomes routine- look at the faces of those who have chosen it.

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  • Author Anne Carson
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    Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied.

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  • Author Ismael Serna
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    Los sueños que no tengo son un grupo de músicos trasnochados sobre la banqueta.

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  • Author Anne Carson
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    Campaign Against Akhmatova Begins (1922)She ran from lamppost to lamppost, the wind slammed.Trotsky reviewed her in Pravda: One reads with dismay...and an unofficial Communist Party resolution banned her poetry (1925).She didn't notice, didn't know what a Communist Party was in those days.Fog choked the city.Russia's great poets were all about 35 years olScraggly trees wandered by the canal in dim sun.

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  • Author Anne Carson
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    détailsAll the same there are some small questions one would like to put to Sokrates. Or better still Sappho. Avec tes mains brûlées.

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  • Author Herbert Mason
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    You have known, O Gilgamesh,What interests me,To drink from the Well of Immortality.Which means to make the deadRise from their gravesAnd the prisoners from their cellsThe sinners from their sins.I think love's kiss kills our heart of flesh.It is the only way to eternal life,Which should be unbearable if livedAmong the dying flowersAnd the shrieking farewellsOf the overstretched arms of our spoiled hopes.

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  • Author Billy Collins
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    You trip over a word while carryinga tray of vocabulary out to the poolonly to discover that broken glassis a good topic.

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