"Poetry is a naked man, a naked woman, and the distance between them."
-Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poetry. Show all posts
4.28.2011
2.11.2011
Getting Poetical
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love's sake only. Do not say
'I love her for her smile-- her look-- her way
Of speaking gently-- for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day'--
For these things in themselves, Belovèd, may
Be changed, or change for thee,and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day'--
For these things in themselves, Belovèd, may
Be changed, or change for thee,and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love thereby!
But love me for love's sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love's eternity.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Sonnets from the Portugese, No. XIV
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8.24.2010
Daily Quote Dose
"To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee."
-Emily Dickinson
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee."
-Emily Dickinson
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