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Cry out in the wilderness with a voice that's not heard. Speak boldly in Christ though you won't say a word.
— R'chelle Cyrus
I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.
— Philip Larkin
Every star was once darker than the night, before it awoke.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature that wants to become an object ofart.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend.
— Stephen Burt
I wonder if a fish's
One and only wish is
That other fish will never say,
This fish is sure delicious! — Brian Rock
One and only wish is
That other fish will never say,
This fish is sure delicious! — Brian Rock
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.
— Franz Grillparzer
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
— Jack Prelutsky
I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.
— Bobby McFerrin
Calico Kitty
My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime... — Muse
My calico kitty
was painted and primed
she could prowl
the night away ~
without spending a dime... — Muse
There always comes the day when children swallow
the key to the door of secrecy. They'll not return it. — Milan Rufus
the key to the door of secrecy. They'll not return it. — Milan Rufus
Earth is the source of light.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I think poetry can help children deal with the other subjects on the curriculum by enabling them to see a subject in a new way.
— Carol Ann Duffy
What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?
— Sherley Mondesir-Prescott
If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way
— Benny Bellamacina
In the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief.
— Suheir Hammad
The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes ... ?
— John Geddes
All mothers breed dead children.
— Mie Hansson
My words are my children. I am eternally grateful to the womb of my mind for conceiving them.
— Munia Khan
When he is most powerful, nothing does he become.
— Dejan Stojanovic
From nothing comes everything.
— Dejan Stojanovic
In the great green room, there was a telephone
And a red balloon
And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon ... — Margaret Wise Brown
And a red balloon
And a picture of a cat jumping over the moon ... — Margaret Wise Brown
He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.
— J.M. Barrie
Digressions are part of harmony, deviations too.
— Dejan Stojanovic
If emptiness is empty, how can something be borne or awaken from it?
— Dejan Stojanovic
Children are our future. We teach them today; what will they do tomorrow?
— Tanya R. Liverman
The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.
— James Fenton
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
— Walter Scott
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting this sore evil?
— Charles Lamb
A fortress built long ago,
Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story. — Rachel Lewis
Walls made timeless by historic glory.
The small girl in the boat slows,
To listen to its story. — Rachel Lewis
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
— Jack Prelutsky
Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky. — Rachel Lewis
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky. — Rachel Lewis
If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.
— Dejan Stojanovic
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
— Edith Sitwell
From everything, nothing looks to nothing.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Always dream big and dare to believe!
— Melinda Rabin
I'm Reginald Clark, I'm afraid of the dark
So please do not close this book on me. — Shel Silverstein
So please do not close this book on me. — Shel Silverstein
All mothers breed dead children.
They shall, perhaps, live later.
When no longer dead, they are born
Not - by coincidence, by choice. — Mie Hansson
They shall, perhaps, live later.
When no longer dead, they are born
Not - by coincidence, by choice. — Mie Hansson
Where the cheerful children
of unwritten poems,
play all around,
you will find me there. — Khadija Rupa
of unwritten poems,
play all around,
you will find me there. — Khadija Rupa
To come to nothing through something is the way to outside from both sides.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.
— Kathleen Norris
Children are the poem made flesh.
— Marty Rubin
Poets are sitting in my kitchen.
Why do these poets lie?
Why do children get children and
Did you hear what it said? — Anne Sexton
Why do these poets lie?
Why do children get children and
Did you hear what it said? — Anne Sexton
LEFTISTS EAT THEIR CHILDREN: The poets, artists, and radicals are murdered first once the "revolution" actually comes about.
— A.E. Samaan
Without nothing, everything would be nothing.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Nothing is part of everything.
— Dejan Stojanovic
She was mined for the children
in her, one daughter, then another,
a short seam, quick to clay,
and not a single son to save them. — Robert Wrigley
in her, one daughter, then another,
a short seam, quick to clay,
and not a single son to save them. — Robert Wrigley
He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children?
— Bharati Mukherjee
Tender Ember
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ... — Muse
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ... — Muse
I could not eat a kangaroo. But many fine Australians do. Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs Prefer him in tasty kangaroo-meringues.
— Ogden Nash
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.
— Dennis Potter
Don't be so quick to count out the teenagers. Some of the world's greatest changes, brilliant poetry, and innovations have come from the teenage mind.
— Steve Maraboli
The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children. — Audre Lorde
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children. — Audre Lorde
The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.
— Christopher Morley
I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.
— Annie Lennox
I stumble and fall.
I weep and struggle to rise.
My mom feels it all. — Richelle E. Goodrich
I weep and struggle to rise.
My mom feels it all. — Richelle E. Goodrich