Inspirational Poetry

by tanita Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:45 pm

"Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. Poetry is what gets lost in translation.Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these
are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty,romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Dead Poet's Society

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But,of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it
means to want to escape from these things. ~T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1919

Inspirational Poetry If by Rudyard Kipling

by tanita Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:46 pm

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!

Rudyard Kipling

by **BILLAL** Thu Jan 10, 2013 8:39 pm

oh! yes! poetry and verse

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