Write Your Marriage In Poetry & Fairy Tales End.

(I attended her wedding in the rain today.)

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

- Germaine Greer


Most thought they only need to fall in love once and when that stales...

- Ghostwise

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Marriage--a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.

- Beverly Nichols


Too often now, the last page is written in lawyer's ink.

- Ghostwise

The Grass Grows By Itself.

(Today I cut grass in a light drizzle.)

“Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself”

- Zen Proverb


Life goes on, even if you don't.

- Ghostwise

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I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

- Boris Pasternak


If you don't lower yourself to the grass, you'll not hear the sound of the earth.

- Ghostwise

A Palace Must Be A House.

(Spent the whole morning taking pictures of palace.)

“Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge


I would like my house to be a palace, but if it cannot be; I rather stay in a house than a palace.

- Ghostwise

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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

- Henry David Thoreau


The wise man realize the most important ingredient for the construction of a happy home is warmth and not grandeur.

- Ghostwise

Painting Is Poetry Is Painting Is Poetry Is.

(Yesterday, my CEO came into my room and saw the painting I brought back from misty LuShan Mountain, China. He proceeded to explain the calligraphy to me.)

“Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?”

- Pablo Picasso


You yourself, your friend, your family, your lover, your enemy, who sees you correctly?

- Ghostwise

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“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen”

- Leonardo da Vinci


Both communicates with the heart.

- Ghostwise

Can One Be A Poet If He Doesn't Write A Single Line?

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

- George Sand, 1851


A true poet is one who took delights in poetry, not necessarily one writes it.

- Ghostwise

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The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."

- Robert Penn Warren


Poetry are meant to be enjoyed with the heart not the mind.

- Ghostwise

Poem & Life

A poem begins with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where the emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words."

- Robert Frost

And a poem ends with a lump in the throat, a home-sickness or a love-sickness.

- Ghostwise

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"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."

- Paul Valery (1874-1945), French poet


The same thing can also be said about Life.

- Ghostwise