You can keep your foofy poetry to yourselves.
I read epic poems. A dead leaf fluttering in a breeze isn't moving. Clever Odysseus blinding the Cyclops or Beowulf giving his life to slay the dragon--that's moving.
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
-Mark Twain
If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein
Poetry is the most romantic way to express love all people will definitely fall in love, especially if you want your ex to come back.
Nah. Poetry is a lot of hot air blown into a girl's ear so she'll be blowing some place else for you.
Action, at least for someone of even passing intelligence, is what really constitutes romance. Who but a shallow moron gives a damn about spoken sweet nothings. It's the guy who is there for you when you need him that is romantic. Y'know, that guy you ladies ignore entirely until someone sees him for what he is, snatches him up, and leaves you to your continuing string of asshole "bad boys"
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
-Mark Twain
If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein
AMEN Gribble.
It's not a sweet word that counts Everybody can say everything, but not everybody can be everything
I wazzzz here
You, who was born for poetry’s creation,
Do not repeat the sayings of the ancients.
Though, maybe, our Poetry, itself,
Is just a single beautiful citation.
ANNA AKHMATOVA
mo'Dajvo' pa'wIjDaq je narghpu' He'So'bogh SajlIj
Here's a small portion of a poem I like:
we must not look at goblin men,
we must not buy their fruits;
who knows upon what soil they fed
their hungry, thirsty roots?
--Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market
Relax... I'll need some information first. Just the basic facts - can you show me where it hurts?
God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.
-Mark Twain
If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
-Albert Einstein
I am surprised you didn't say Chaucer. Or Gower. You basically mentioned all the shit I had to read in high school. Beowulf isn't any good unless you read it in Anglo-Saxon (true value comes in the cleverness of meter and rhyme) And the best works of Shakespeare are far underrated.