"Tangled Words" is exactly that. This is the online notebook shoved in the bottom drawer by a twenty-something year old Aussie girl. It isn't meant to be anything special, just a place where thoughts can be tucked away.
“One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.”
~James Earl Jones
“Words are the voice of the heart”
~Confucius
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
~Kahlil Gibran
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
~Edgar Allan Poe
Poetry
makes nothing happen.
It survives
in the valley of its saying.
~Maxine Kumin
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
~Audre Lorde
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word . . . speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.
~Christopher Fry
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.
~Jean Cocteau
Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.
~Carl Sandburg
Poetry just is...
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