Richie Branner

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Jersey Channel Islands

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January 2013

All thoughts by me! I spend a lot of time reflecting on life, the strange happenings, what could have been and memories of the people I have met. My tales (poetry) are mostly based on experience I have had or from a story a friend has told me! I like to give the reader an option sometimes on deciding what the story is about! I steal this quote which probably explains what drives me on.... ā?¢Ā¿•¿½??Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.ā?¢Ā¿•¿½??...R.I.Fitzhenry

Other quotes:-

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. ~Plato, Ion

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ~Leonard Cohen

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. ~Percy Byshe Shelley

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is. ~James Branch Cabell

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul." ~Soren Kierkegaard

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. ~W.B. Yeats

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ~Novalis

Who can tell the dancer from the dance? ~William Butler Yeats

The poet doesn't invent. He listens. ~Jean Cocteau

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. ~Gustave Flaubert

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. ~Thomas Babington Macaulay

You can't write poetry on the computer. ~Quentin Tarantino

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. Dead Poet's Society

The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics. ~Edgar Allan Poe

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times. ~Randall Jarrell

A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ~Rene Char


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