Good morning, daddy!
Ain't you heard
The boogie-woogie rumble
Of a dream deferred?
Listen closely:
You'll hear their feet
Beating out and beating out a -
You think
It's a happy beat?
Listen to it closely:
Ain't you heard
something underneath
like a -
What did I say?
Sure,
I'm happy!
Take it away!
Dream Boogie
Hey, pop!
Re-bop!
Mop!
Y-e-a-h!
Tags: poetry dream poet harlem boogie
Live for everything, or die for nothing
Nate SpearsTags: poetry quote poet passage nate-spears
Any hand can condem, but it takes a helping hand to build.
Nate SpearsTags: poetry inspiration quote poet passage nate-spears
No thought is a stupid thought, those who are thoughtless are thought of as stupid.
Nate SpearsTags: poetry inspiration quote poet passage nate-spears
I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it
Marianne MooreTags: poets poet pretentious disgust pretentiousness pretention
When confronted with suffering that won't go away or with even a minor problem, we instinctively focus on what is missing,...not on the Master's hand. Often when you think everything has gone wrong, it's just that you're in the middle of a story. If you watch the stories God is weaving in your life, you... will begin to see the patterns. You'll become a poet, sensitive to your Father's voice.
Paul E. MillerTags: god suffering story prayer poet
Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.
Philip LarkinTags: poetry writing youth letters poet letters-to-monica
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
Philip LarkinTags: poetry writing letters authors poet poems letters-to-monica philip-larkin
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 LarkinTags: art poetry children youth poem poet letters-to-monica philip-larkin
Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
Philip LarkinTags: poetry family youth poem poet letters-to-monica philip-larkin
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