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Caged Bird BY MAYA ANGELOU
A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky.
But a bird that stalks
down his narrow cage
can seldom see through
his bars of rage
his wings are clipped and
his feet are tie
... See moreSi la plupart des poètes sont jeunes, c’est tout simplement parce que la vie ne les a pas encore rattrapés. Montrez-moi un vieux poète et je vous montrerai, plus souvent que vous croyez, un maître ou un maboul.
Charles Bukowski • Sur l'écriture (LITTÉRATURE GÉNÉRALE) (French Edition)
How much space for remembering is there in a day? How much should there be? I think about this in my poetry. I don’t want to be a nostalgist. Yet I feed on memory, need it to make poems, the art that is made of the stuff I have: my life and the world around me.
Elizabeth Alexander • The Light of the World: A Memoir
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Neruda’s 2 dictionary poems:
Dictionary, you are not a
tomb, sepulcher, grave,
tumulus, mausoleum,
but guard and keeper,
hidden fire,
groves of rubies,
living eternity
of essence,
depository of language
... See moreDictionary, let one hand
of your thousand hands, one
of your thousand emeralds,
a
single drop
of your virginal springs,
one grain
from your
magnanimous granaries,
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