{"quotes":[{"text":"...What good would it do toshutter your windows, neverdream of rainbows or find hopein promises? Why choose to walk awayrather than hold your groundand fight for love?","author":"Ellen Hopkins","tags":["ellen-hopkins","verse","young-adult"],"id":605,"author_id":"Ellen+Hopkins"},{"text":"I live not in myself, but I becomePortion of that around me: and to meHigh mountains are a feeling, but the humof human cities torture.","author":"George Gordon Byron","tags":["classics","epic-poetry","poetry","verse"],"id":9684,"author_id":"George+Gordon+Byron"},{"text":"I cannot live to hear the news from England.But I do prophesy th' election lightsOn Fortinbras; he has my dying voice.So tell him, with th' occurents, more and less,Which have solicited - the rest is silence.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["betrayal","death","genius","government","greed","shakespeare","verse"],"id":15819,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["alone","between","bird","bird","birds","cloud","clouds","die","eagle","eagle","eagles","flight","haze","high","life","loneliness","poem","poems","poetry","poetry","ray","remain","shroud","shrouds","sigh","sky","soar","sun","sunrays","verse","way"],"id":24344,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Wings can only flyas long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax criesfor ignitable wickJealous people burnto make your heart feel sick.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["bird","birds","black","candle","cries","envy","envy","fly","heart","ignite","jealous","jealousy","jealousy","lies","poem","poems","poetry","poetry","sick","soul","verse","vestments","wax","white","wick","wings","wisdom"],"id":25033,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"For we know that our old self was crucified with him so the the body of sin might be brought to nothing, that we should no longer be enslaved to sin.","author":"Romans 6:6","tags":["bible","romans","romans-6-6","verse"],"id":39359,"author_id":"Romans+6%3A6"},{"text":"Every morningbefore the birds starttrilling me their stories,I give birth to a new lovethrough my same old heartwhen a lake’s placidityfinds life in the swans breathOnly for you...From the poem 'Only For You.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["birds","breath","heart","lake","love","love","love","lover","lovers","morning","poem","poetry","poetry","swan","swans","verse"],"id":48907,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed out on truths that are incapable of statement in prose. There are no such truths; there is nothing about death that Swinburne and Landor knew but Epicurus and Heidegger failed to grasp. Rather, it is because I would have lived more fully if I had been able to rattle off more old chestnuts — just as I would have if I had made more close friends.","author":"Richard M. Rorty","tags":["algernon-charles-swinburne","algernon-swinburne","epicurus","heidegger","landor","martin-heidegger","poetry","verse","walter-landor","walter-savage-landor"],"id":59895,"author_id":"Richard+M.+Rorty"},{"text":"All that can best be expressed in words should be expressed in verse, but verse is a slow thing to create; nay, it is not really created: it is a secretion of the mind, it is a pearl that gathers round some irritant and slowly expresses the very essence of beauty and of desire that has lain long, potential and unexpressed, in the mind of the man who secretes it. God knows that this Unknown Country has been hit off in verse a hundred times...Milton does it so well in the Fourth Book of Paradise Lost that I defy any man of a sane understanding to read the whole of that book before going to bed and not to wake up next morning as though he had been on a journey.","author":"Hilaire Belloc","tags":["beauty","desire","milton","paradise-lost","poetry","verse","words","writing"],"id":60903,"author_id":"Hilaire+Belloc"},{"text":"Belief In Self'If you quit while pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you've come to success. It might have been hidden behind that next door you decided not to open, since the last fifty doors revealed little or nothing.","author":"Kamil Ali","tags":["philosophy","poem","poetry","profound","verse"],"id":62162,"author_id":"Kamil+Ali"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":72,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}