J. Patrick Lewis Quotes

#1. Poetry is frosted fire.

J. Patrick Lewis

#2. Spotted Park Bench
I am a park bench.
Ordinary words cannot
express my thoughts on birds.

J. Patrick Lewis

#3. Libraries
Are
Neccessary
Gardens,
Unsurpassed
At
Growing
Excitement

J. Patrick Lewis

#4. Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

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#5. Please bury me in the library
With a dozen long-stemmed proses

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#6. I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

J. Patrick Lewis

#7. I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

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#8. A great book is a homing device
For navigating paradise.
A good book somehow makes you care
About the comfort of a chair.
A bad book owes to many trees
A forest of apologies.

J. Patrick Lewis

#9. Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

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#10. Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

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#11. The Ladybug wears no disguises.
She is just what she advertises.
A speckled spectacle of spring,
A fashion statement on the wing ...
A miniature orange kite.
A tiny dot-to-dot delight.

J. Patrick Lewis

#12. The rat is the moustache in the trache. The wrongdoer in the soer.

J. Patrick Lewis