Words of Wisdom

...: The thread of Poetry.

As a big fan of Stephen Crane, i'll start with one of my favorite poems from him :

There Was a Man Who Lived a Life of Fire (The Black Riders LXII)

There was a man who lived a life of fire. Even upon the fabric of time, Where purple becomes orange And orange purple, This life glowed, A dire red stain, indelible; Yet when he was dead, He saw that he had not lived.

A Man Said to the Universe

A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation."