A poet's life begins in conflict with the whole of existence.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Showing posts with label life of the poet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life of the poet. Show all posts
life and art
My life has been the poem I would have writ
But I could not both live and utter it.
—Henry David Thoreau
But I could not both live and utter it.
—Henry David Thoreau
to get bread
The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread…
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1876, (Houghton Mifflin, 1910)
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1876, (Houghton Mifflin, 1910)
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