Beth > Beth's Quotes

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads

“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

“even the small poems mean something. they are often whales in the bodies of tiny fish.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, salt.

“first book There are seven of them, haikus mostly but rhyming ones, too. Not enough for a real book until I cut each page into a small square staple the squares together, write one poem on each page. Butterflies by Jacqueline Woodson on the front. The butterfly book complete now.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder