We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion, and medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Dead Poet’s Society
Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.
‘If I Should Have a Daughter’
We are born to believe
We can’t change a thing
We can’t,
and we never could.
But before you believe
The things you believe
You must understand
to
be
understood.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
When I stare into your eyes
and you stare back into mine
I don’t just see the surface
I see the galaxies as they hide.
And for those fleeting moments
I know not of gruesome thoughts
but rather of the cosmos
the stars, your eyes have caught.
It’s as if you swallowed night
just to take my breath away
the universe is endless
and my feelings are the same.
Striking depths of space I see
your eyes provide this view
what do you think while you search mine?
All I think is, ‘I love you.’
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