Emotions and Feelings
Edgar Albert Guest
It takes a heap o’ livin’ in a house t’ make it home, A heap o’ sun an’ shadder, an’ ye sometimes have Afore ye really ’preciate the things ye lef’ behind, An’ hunger fer ’em somehow, with ’em allus on yer mind.
Wallace Stevens
The palm at the end of the mind, Beyond the last thought, rises… A gold-feathered bird Sings in the palm.
Wallace Stevens
We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark. 1
Wallace Stevens
Light the first light of evening, as in a room In which we rest and, for small reason, think The world imagined is the ultimate good.
Wallace Stevens
These external regions, what do we fill them with Except reflections, the escapades of death, Cinderella fulfilling herself beneath the roof.
Wallace Stevens
By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that defeats and dreams The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.
Wallace Stevens
The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one’s desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.
Wallace Stevens
The greatest poverty is not to live In a physical world, to feel that one’s desire Is too difficult to tell from despair.
Wallace Stevens
One’s grand flights, one’s Sunday baths, One’s tootings at the weddings of the soul Occur as they occur.
Wallace Stevens
She says, “But in contentment I still feel The need of some imperishable bliss.” Death is the mother of beauty; hence from her, Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams And our desires.
Wallace Stevens
We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old dependency of day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored, free, Of that wide water, inescapable. Deer walk upon our mountains, and the quail Whistle about us their spontaneous cries; Sweet berries ripen in the wilderness; And, in the isolation of the sky, At evening, casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink, Downward to darkness, on extended wings.
Wallace Stevens
Only, here and there, an old sailor, Drunk and asleep in his boots, Catches tigers In red weather.
Carl Sandburg
Why is there always a secret singing When a lawyer cashes in? Why does a hearse horse snicker Hauling a lawyer away?
Carl Sandburg
Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations.