"Poetry is music written for the human..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
Poetry is music written for the human voice.
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“Don't bring negative to my door.”
“When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.”
“We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.”
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“Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs.”
“The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.”
“The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit ~ not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviæ from their graves ... You may melt your metals and cast them into the most beautiful moulds you can; they will never excite me like the forms which this molten earth flows out into.”