Status Updates From Le Cercle des poètes disparus

my biological child btw

«She walks in beauty, like the night. Of cloudless climes and starry skies;And all that's best of dark and bright. Meet in her aspect and her eyes.»

“What it demonstrates is how difficult it is for any of us to listen to our own voice or maintain our own beliefs in the presence of others. Lads, there is a great need in all of us to be accepted, but you must trust what is unique or different about yourself, even if it is odd or unpopular.”

“Don't limit poetry to the word. Poetry can be found in music, a photograph, in the way a meal is prepared, anything with the stuff of revelation in it. It can exist in the most everyday things but it must never, never be ordinary.”

“Plato, a gifted man like myself, once said, 'Only the contest made me a poet, a sophist, an orator.'”

“And out of a fabulous story
We fashion an empire's glory:
One man with a dream, at pleasure
Shall go forth and conquer a crown;
And three with a new song's measure
Can trample an empire down.
We in the ages lying,
In the buried past of the earth,
Built Nineveh with our sighing,
And Babel itself with our mirth.”

"We are the music makers
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lonely sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;
World losers and world forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world, forever, it seems.
With wonderful deathless ditties
We build up with world's great cities,”

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”

" ’I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life!' "

Not artists .. Free thinkers.

Not a cynic .. A realist.

“One reads poetry because he is a member of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion!
Medicine, law, banking-these are necessary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love, beauty?
These are what we stay alive for!”

“words and ideas have the power to change the world.”