I didn’t start writing songs, honestly, until I started making my album. I was always doing poetry, but I never thought I could write songs. I discouraged myself and thought it was so hard. But starting this process and learning just what it is to be a songwriter and performer taught me that you don’t have to feel discouraged about anything. You don’t even have to follow any rules.” —Alessia Cara Provocative poetry quotes One of Portugal’s greatest poets, Luís Vaz de Camões is known for his lyrical poetry and dramatic epics. ‘Love is a fire that burns unseen’ is an example of the former, reflecting his numerous turbulent love affairs and how each brought a complex fusion of pleasure and pain. 14. "Beautiful Signor" by Cyrus Cassells This is the endless wanderlust: dervish, yours is the April-upon-April love that kept me spinning even beyond your eventful arms toward the unsurpassed:

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Another entry from milk and honey, this short, untitled poem takes a bittersweet and world weary, but ultimately generous look at love and its challenges. 37. "Poem To An Unnameable Man" by Dorothea Lasky And I will not cry also You Are the Penultimate Love of My Life’ is an unorthodox love poem, focusing on the realities rather than the fantasies of being in love. Rebecca Hazelton isn’t writing about her soulmate, and she’s aware of that — but that doesn’t make the love they share any less special. 32. "Yours" by Daniel Hoffman I am yours as the summer air at evening is Possessed by the scent of linden blossoms, But this is not all: if they are as numerous (and so by implication glorious) as the stars, moreover they out-perform the nearby waves in jollity: The collection began with Coleridge’s famous ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, a curious tale in a curious attempt at balladic form and stress-based metre. It then cycled through a number of ballads and ballad-like poems celebrating the common humanity of what we might call ‘low’ characters—a reaction to the heroic tradition of the eighteenth century. (However, let me emphasise that this cliché is far from the total truth. Wordsworth read copious amounts of eighteenth-century poetry, and there is much of the style of the time—albeit deeply transformed—in his writing, too. For this side of Wordsworth, read ‘An Evening Walk’, or the wonderful ‘Descriptive Sketches’.) About: “The American Poetry Review is dedicated to reaching a worldwide audience with a diverse array of the best contemporary poetry and literary prose. APR also aims to expand the audience interested in poetry and literature, and to provide authors, especially poets, with a far-reaching forum in which to present their work.”

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About: “The Nation welcomes unsolicited poetry submissions. You may send up to three poems at a time, but no more than 6 poems a year. No simultaneous submissions, or previously published works, please. Submissions are not accepted from June 1 to September 15.” Around 1798–9, Coleridge began bothering Wordsworth about writing a long philosophical poem. This was to be called ‘The Recluse’. Sadly, it was never produced, but two other book-length poems were: ‘The Prelude’, published in 1850 by Wordsworth’s widow a few months after his death (the title is hers), and ‘The Excursion’, which was published in Wordsworth’s lifetime and was often considered, as the scholar Bushell notes in Re-Reading The Excursion, to be Wordsworth’s greatest poem during his lifetime. (It was appreciated by the late Victorians as equal in worth with the famous Prelude; but today it has dwindled to the point of hardly being read at all. However, Book I of the poem, first written in 1797–8 (often considered Wordsworth’s finest years) as an independent poem, The Ruined Cottage, is still read by ardent Wordsworthians.) A colleague of a colleague apparently once wittily remarked that Wordsworth couldn’t write ‘The Recluse’, but could write a Prelude to it and an Excursion from it.

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Loaded with such a sense of due thanksgiving, and weighed with such reflections as we have seen, Wordsworth then makes a prayer to Dorothy: The poem is in two discrete parts, the first of which relates the tale: Sir Walter relentlessly hunts the hart and finds it dead by a spring after leaping a tremendous distance (which he deduces from the number of hoofprints in the earth). The element of the mysterious is strongly suggested by Wordsworth himself:My weapon has always been language, and I’ve always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they’re flowers, or bridges.” ­—Sandra Cisneros

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In Shakespeare’s final entry on our list, he challenges the traditional association of love with beauty. It doesn’t matter what his lover looks like — to him she is the most rare and valuable thing in the world. 56. "Love’s Philosophy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix forever With a sweet emotion; Nothing in the world is single; All things by a law divine In one spirit meet and mingle Why not I with thine? This epigraph—which Wordsworth extracted from another of his poems, ‘My Heart Leaps Up’—was added to the later, longer version of the poem (written 1804, published 1807), which is of 11 substantial stanzas in length. The first version (written 1802) is only three, and poses the problem: the fading away of the sense of the divine in nature with the coming of age:

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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.” —Audre Lorde Funny and irreverent poetry quotes There is a strong sense of longing in Pablo Neruda’s ‘Love Sonnet XI’, as our speaker confesses the thought of his love never leaves his mind, driving him to the point of distraction. Evocative and at times alarming, it's a love poem which perfectly treads the blurred line between romance and obsession. 43. "Your Feet" by Pablo Neruda Many thanks, Mr Tweedie, for your kind and thoughtful words. I generally agree with you on Wordsworth’s use of rhyme (and his choice not to use it), although certainly he enjoyed notable successes with it, too. I am very glad you found my discussion of the great Tintern Abbey profitable; the peak of Wordsworth’s writing, and the peak of my writing about Wordsworth! As for Daffodils, we shall have to be content to disagree, but I find myself wishing that if only Wordsworth had written a little poem entitled ‘Scorn not the daffodil’, I might then have used it to make a case!