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Poem: the stranger from my heart.

Poem: the stranger from my heart.

Quote by Costel Zăgan about aphorisms, heart

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it...

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

Quote by M. H. Abrams about body, contentment

My anxiety poem I write a poem today it will die tomorrow. It rises on its shivering feet of words it catches my attention and pulse as a living creature in another century - higher, unborn - and rises up, upper and upper, from...

Quote by Olimpiu Nusfelean about poetry, silence, attention, common sense, sense, word, death

With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about determination, poetry, poets, man

Then I did Japanese Death Poem. I played seven or eight...

Then I did Japanese Death Poem. I played seven or eight different characters. It's the most challenging thing I've ever done on stage.

Quote by Austin Peck about character, death, things

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the...

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley about history, time, man

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Quote by Mata Hari about dance, word

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play.

A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play.

Quote by Robert M. Hensel about poetry, memory, thinking

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's...

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage.

Quote by Paul Engle about poetry, sadness, heads, word, poets

I believe that each human being has within himself or...

I believe that each human being has within himself or herself at least one poem or short story, or perhaps even a full length book.

Quote by Dee Brown about literature, faith, human imperfections, being

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will...

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

Quote by John Millington Synge about language, word, music, contentment

My poem is you.

My poem is you.

Quote by Razvan Tupa about aphorisms, contentment

The construction of a poem equals the carving in marble of a statue, or just only a statuettes. The composition of a statuary group sends you to prose.

Quote by Barbu Cioculescu about literature, contentment

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into...

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

Quote by Pablo Neruda about opinion, peace

Nothing to understand: you open the book passing your soul over its old parchment a pale light starts suddenly flowing a poisoned spear falls down bloody wars corpses ever more deeply slashed in ever greater numbers until they are...

OQuote by Otilia Nicolescu about poetry, numbers, nothing, light, soul, old, olderness, death, spirit, contentment

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Quote by Robert Frost about poetry, end, wisdom

I love you, dear poem, and I will show you to the world....

I love you, dear poem, and I will show you to the world. You have traveled across the seas to reach me…

Quote by Eleanor R. Hampton about poetry, contentment, world, love

Life is a still repetitive miracle, not a poker table, not a business, it is sometimes sad poem, a game of scales of Nature, still favoring being.

Quote by Mariana Fulger about life, poker, miracle, games, affair, nature, being

On a frozen, wind-swept day, a poem is like a warm...

On a frozen, wind-swept day, a poem is like a warm fireplace, melting the frost lining that lingers on the edge of icy hearts.

Quote by Eleanor R. Hampton about poetry, day

Or About Loneliness Speak to me about love I told her And the lily Suddenly blossomed Leaving me behind and stranded in love Poem by Costel Zăgan(2005), translated by Dan Costinaş

Quote by Costel Zăgan about law, solitude, love

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