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“Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:        
And Lo! The Hunter of the East has caught                        
The Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light”
(Edward FitzGerald and the Rubšiyšt of Omar Khayyšm, 1st edition 1859)
#Poetry #Translation

They say nobody reads poetry. Almost nobody reads *anything* any more except for posts and tweets and toots. But keep on writing. Maybe someday ...
#poetry

Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, from “The Voiceless”
Music is the best.
--Frank Zappa, from Joe's Garage Act III, 1979
#GoodQuotes #Music #Poetry

One thing I love about Saint Paul: they put poetry on sidewalks. Here's some in my neighborhood. Art infrastructure!
#saintpaul #minnesota #poetry

There he is! Up there!
All the way up there!
The richest man in history!
I bet we could raise him higher yet—
At least the length of a pikestaff.
#poetry

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
Dorothea Mackellar, Australian writer, from the poem: “My Country”, 1908
#Poetry #QuoteOfTheDay

There was an Old Man with a Beard
There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared!—
Two Owls and a Hen, four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard.
--Edward Lear
#Poetry

Lieke Marsman | 1990 - 2026 🖤
" ... Je ogen zijn zo rood, omdat iemand heeft gezegd dat je ogen zo blauw zijn en dat heeft je geraakt. Het fijne aan geraakt worden is dat het niet lang hoeft te duren om lang te blijven duren en het vreemde aan geraakt zijn is dat het nagalmt en nastampt en toch ben je er stil van. ..."
uit het gedicht ‘Vasthoudendheid’ in Lieke's debuutbundel ‘Wat ik mijzelf graag voorhoud‘ (2010, Van Oorschot)
#LiekeMarsman #poetry #poezie

Life's a long song.
-- Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull 1971
#Music #Poetry #Truth

When no one cares, and no one sees
That private prayer upon your knees,
God hears your words to move the world,
When by his will he speaks to build
The Kingdom with his powerful ease ─
In private prayer it's God who's skilled
To hear the man with whom he's pleased.
#SmallPoems

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
--William Butler Yeats
#Quote #Poetry #Wisdom #Knowledge