Greatest Poetry

If I feel physically

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

I love thee to

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

here is the deepest

here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry … Read more

And this is the

And this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ] e. e. cummings

Most people do not

Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do. Cyril Connolly

Poetry is the journal

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Carl Sandburg

To strive, to seek,

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alfred Lord Tennyson