Poetry Quote by Kenneth L. Patton — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Read poems to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read them while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone else sleeps next to you. Read them when you're wide awake in the early morning, fully alert. Say them over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of the culture — the constant buzzing noise that surrounds us — has momentarily stopped. These poems have come from a great distance to find you.”

“The History Teacher”

“She wildly burned for the one she loved and he stood there watching, hoping he too would catch a blaze from the violence stirring in her heart.”

“We must not be frightened nor cajoled”

“I have drunken deep of joy,”

“There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.”