My "must-have " was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere in which every life may expand. I found it everywhere about me. The children of old New England were always surrounded, it is true, with stubborn matter of fact,--the hand to hand struggle for existence. But that was no hindrance. Poetry must have prose to root itself in; the homelier its earth-spot, the lovelier, by contrast, its heaven-breathing flowers.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
Some of my choicest extracts were in the first volume of collected poetry I ever owned, a little red morocco book called "The Young Man's Book of Poetry." It was given me by one of my sisters when I was about a dozen years old, who rather apologized for the young man on the title-page, saying that the poetry was just as good as if he were not there.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
Introduction I. A Brief Sketch of Lanier's Life II. Lanier's Prose Works III. Lanier's Poetry: Its Themes IV. Lanier's Poetry: Its Style V. Lanier's Theory of Poetry VI. Conclusion英文原著 · 《Select Poems of Sidney Lanier》
"I am getting very old," she wrote; "you see, I shall never live to have another doll given me. This will be my last doll. There is something solemn about it. If I could write poetry, I am sure a poem about `A Last Doll' would be very nice. But I cannot write poetry. I have tried, and it made me laugh. It did not sound like Watts or Coleridge or Shake{}speare at all. No one could ever take Emily's place, but I should respect the Last Doll very much; and I am sure the school would love it.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
But with this ideal picture of mountain scenery there came to me a revelation of poetry as the one unattainable something which I must reach out after, because I could not live without it. The thought of it was to me like the thought of God and of truth. To leave out poetry would be to lose the real meaning of life. I felt this very blindly and vaguely, no doubt; but the feeling was deep. It was as if Mont Blanc stood visibly before me, while I murmured to myself in lonely places --英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
Since I am writing these recollections for the young, I may say here that I regard a love for poetry as one of the most needful and helpful elements in the life-outfit of a human being. It was the greatest of blessings to me, in the long days of toil to which I was shut in much earlier than most young girls are, that the poetry I held in my memory breathed its enchanted atmosphere through me and around me, and touched even dull drudgery with its sunshine.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
Last time I was at the Gold Space Loft, I went to a poetry slam, and I wound up slamming a poet.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
Because if you do, grab one of these poems that doesn't follow any of the rules of poetry,美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》