Tag: poet

  • Ice Child, by John Haines

    Cold for so long, unable to speak, yet your mouth seems framed on a cry, or a stifled question. Who placed you here, and left you to this lonely eternity of ash and ice, and himself returned to the dust fields, the church and the temple? Was it God—the sun-god of the Incas, the imperial…

  • William Wordsworth – What is a Poet?

    Quote from William Wordsworth’ about what is a Poet.

  • Quote – Ted Kooser – Considering the ways…

    Working on an interview and I came across this great quote from Ted Kooser. “Considering the ways in which so many of us waste our time, what would be wrong with a world in which everybody were writing poems? After all, there’s a significant service to humanity in spending time doing no harm. While you’re…