The World Motivation
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
“Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.”
— John Masefield · Poetry
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?
In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.
I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
the worst thing," he told me,
Your politics are so far right,
The Dreamfence
eat, baby.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.