Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment
POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
Revolt and terror pay a price,/ Order and law have a cost.
Sandburg's retelling of Lincoln's attendance at an evangelist rally led by Peter Cartwright in 1846, in response to accusations by Cartwright's followers that he was an "infidel" - Cartwright was his opponent in his race for Congress:
Shame is the feeling you have when you agree with the woman who loves you that you are the man she thinks you are.
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.
This website focuses on proverbs in the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian languages, and some parts including the links below have not been translated to English. They are mainly FAQs, various information and webpages for improving the collection.