Minor Poem Quotes & Sayings

Nourish the world with your words, yo. — Ariel Gore

I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives. — Mike Huckabee

The reality is that these cases are happening all the time. It's when they get out of control that you have a problem. — Steve Williams

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore

At the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up. — Saint Augustine

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will. — Charles Spurgeon

When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference. — Jacque Fresco

Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes for granted an interest on the reader's part in the poet's autobiographical life, in the poet's memories, problems, difficulties and even minor perceptions. — Billy Collins

The time of minor poets is coming. Good-by Whitman, Dickinson, Frost. Welcome you whose fame will never reach beyond your closest family, and perhaps one or two good friends gathered after dinner over a jug of fierce red wine ... While the children are falling asleep and complaining about the noise you're making as you rummage through the closets for your old poems, afraid your wife might've thrown them out with last spring's cleaning.
It's snowing, says someone who has peeked into the dark night, and then he, too, turns toward you as you prepare yourself to read, in a manner somewhat theatrical and with a face turning red, the long rambling love poem whose final stanza (unknown to you) is hopelessly missing. — Charles Simic

The only response
to a child's grave is
to lie down before it and play dead. — Bill Knott

I see now that the circumstances of ones birth are irrelevent. it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are — Suzanne Collins

When you are a mature woman, the wolf-whistles from construction workers stop, and that's a scary thing. — Arianne Richmonde

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder. — Leigh Hunt

There are only two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear. Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it. Love invites you, always, to break the bonds of ignorance. — Neale Donald Walsch

People always seemed to pay attention to us. I have no idea why
there was just a presence between the four people or something. — Billy Corgan

There was nothing there but shadows, and I was a shadow. And then I heard your voice. — Clare