February 2012
How to Write Poetry
newbabylon:
In order to write poetry,
it helps to separate
complete sentences
into individual lines
like this
You may also
isolate small words as single lines
to give the illusion of profundity
Like
Such
And if that doesn’t work,
you can always
end the poem
with a random word,
as a single line,
as a single stanza,
for that much beloved dash of post-modernism
Banana
“It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not ‘one thing...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via serialstranger)
“Maybe…you’ll fall in love with me all over again.”
“Hell,” I said, “I love you...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via serialstranger)
“No one is free. Even the birds are chained to the sky.”
– Bob Dylan (via bluebiird)
