Poetry Quote by Rupert Brooke — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“in the afterglow”

“When by my solitary hearth I sit,”

“It's better to swim in the sea below”

“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations. It's like looking too closely and too long into a mirror; soon your features distort, then erupt. You look too closely into your poems, or listen too closely to them as they arrive in whispers, and the features inside you - call it heart, call it mind, call it soul - accelerate out of control. They distort and they erupt, and it is one strange pain. You realize, then, that you can't attempt breaking down too many barriers in too short a time, because there are as many horrors waiting to get in at you as there are parts of yourself pushing to break out, and with the same, or more, fevered determination.”

“…be awake to the Life”

“wild rose roots dream the bees
what does the baby see”