Quotes About Strength

The beauty of words will forever be stronger than the silence of tears.

Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be strong once again.

Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!

I've had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight

Happiness is to take up the struggle in the midst of the raging storm and not to pluck the lute in the moonlight or recite poetry among the blossoms.

Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And yet they expose me more than all my other poems

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

Hip-hop is a perfect mix between poetry and boxing.

Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

I sang in my chains like the sea

And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

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when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns

A wounded dear leaps the highest

She dances in a ring of fire and throws of the challenge with a shrug.