497_World Poetry Day

Today's word is World Poetry Day.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
~ T. S. Eliot

 
Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
~ Plutarch


Always be a poet, even in prose.
~ Charles Baudelaire


Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
~ Charles Baudelaire


I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
~ Steven Wright


Happy Drawing :)