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Selected Poems

The classic volume by the distinguished modern poet, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, showcases an esteemed artist's technical mastery, her warm h

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E. E. Cummings (11)Robert Louis Stevenson (2)Pablo Neruda (1)Octavio Paz (1)Rainer Maria Rilke (1)Gwendolyn Brooks (1)Walt Whitman (1)Rabindranath Tagore (1)

“Books feed and cure and chortle and collide.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks, amazon.com

Tagged: Poetry, Books, Reading, beauty, Beautiful Words

“I will be your poet, I will be more to you than to any of the rest.”

— Walt Whitman, amazon.com

Tagged: love quotes, Poetic Lines, Inspirational Quote, affection

“I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times… In life after life, in age after age, forever.”

— Rabindranath Tagore, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, eternal love, poem, Poetry

“i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i li…”

— E. E Cummings, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, romance, Sex, Making Love, poem

“Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door; Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shore Where neither piping bird nor peeping dawn Disturbs the eternal sleep, But in the stillness far withdrawn Our dreamless rest for evermore we keep.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Poetry, Sleep, Eternal sleep, Rest

“Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he long'd to be; Home is the sailor, home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson, amazon.com

Tagged: Death, Poetry, Requiem, Sea

“Deserve your dream.”

— Octavio Paz, amazon.com

Tagged: Dream, Goals, purpose, Life

“Spring has come round again, and the Earth is like a child who is brimming with poems.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com

Tagged: Spring, Seasons, Why Spring Is So Beautiful

“Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you.”

— Pablo Neruda, amazon.com

Tagged: Falling Out Of Love, Little By Little, Forgotten

“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.”

— E. E Cummings, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Romantic Love, Timeless Love, Love In Novels

“somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near”

— E. E. Cummings, amazon.com

Tagged: E.E. Quotes, Love, beauty, Poetry

“(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)”

— E. E Cummings, amazon.com

Tagged: E.E. Quotes, Love, beauty, Poetry

“along the brittle treacherous bright streets of memory comes my heart,singing like an idiot, whispering like a drunken man”

— E. E. Cummings, amazon.com

Tagged: E.E. Quotes, Love, beauty, Poetry

“and what I want to know is how do you like your blue-eyed boy”

— E. E. Cummings, amazon.com

Tagged: E.E. Quotes, Love, beauty, Poetry

“i charge laughing. Into the hair-thin tints of yellow dawn, into the women-coloured twilight”

— E. E. Cummings, amazon.com

Tagged: E.E. Quotes, Love, beauty, Poetry

“(and from my thighs which shrug and pant a murdering rain leapingly reaches the upward singular deepest flower which she carries in a gesture of her hips)”

— E. E. Cummings, amazon.com

Tagged: E.E. Quotes, Love, beauty, Poetry

“i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you here is the deepest secret nobody knows”

— E. E. Cummings, amazon.com

Tagged: E.E. Quotes, Love, beauty, Poetry

“in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems”

— E. E. Cummings, amazon.com

Tagged: E.E. Quotes, Love, beauty, Poetry

“love is a deeper season than reason; my sweet one”

— E. E. Cummings, amazon.com

Tagged: E.E. Quotes, Love, beauty, Poetry

“the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses”

— E. E. Cummings, amazon.com

Tagged: E.E. Quotes, Love, beauty, Poetry