picture of Walt Whitman courtesy of Just Rob
Our Greatest Fear
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, Our presence automatically liberates others.
—Marianne Williamson
"We can complain that the rose bushes have thorns or rejoice that the thorn bushes have roses." - Abraham Lincoln.
link to pictures of letters to TW Higginson - 643 pictures
http://www.emilydickinson.org/index.html
http://www.emilydickinson.org/responses_menu.html
http://www.emilydickinson.org/safe/th11c.html
http://www.emilydickinson.org/safe/safedex.html
http://www.emilydickinson.org/writings_menu.html
http://www.emilydickinson.org/mutilation/index.html
http://www.emilydickinson.org/susan/greens.html
http://www.emilydickinson.org/ENGL313/Spring2008.html
http://www.emilydickinson.org/edcindex.html
http://www.emilydickinson.org/safe/preintro.html

Sylvia Plath at Smith *

Sylvia Plath interview and "Lady Lazarus"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvBtZ3zMs6I&feature=related
“Goodbye Michael” by white stone
http://allpoetry.com/journal/16745-Goodbye-Michael
I worked in a college library for 12 years and was able to get a microfiche copy of a handwritten manuscript (fascicles) by Emily Dickinson from Boston University through Interlibrary Loans. They were tied together with ribbons. The first edition of her poems to be published after her death had Indian Pipe flowers painted on the cover done by Mabel Loomis Todd for Emily. A later issue of different poems reproduced the same image of the flowers on the cover. I then copied my favorite poems in her handwriting and mounted typed copies next to them and hung them with her picture over my desk for inspiration.
(also see my lists on Pablo Neruda & Emily Dickinson inspired poems)
"Broken Sparrow: For Sylvia" (Sylvia Plath)
www.allpoetry.com/Poem/2276693
"Daliesque" (Salvador Dali)
www.allpoetry.com/poem/1924307
"Luminous: The Persistence of Memory" (Salvador Dali)
www.allpoetry.com/poem/1949457
"Miss Sylvia Sexton's Sonata" (Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton)
www.allpoetry.com/poem/2137726
"A Response to T.S. Eliot (revised)"
www.allpoetry.com/poem/1948381
"Driftwood" (Margaret Atwood)
www.allpoetry.com/poem/699383
"Elevation" (Maya Angelou)
www.allpoetry.com/poem/1963199
"The Long Night of Lady Day" (Billie Holiday)
www.allpoetry.com/poem/1414858
"All That Jazz"
www.allpoetry.com/poem/1963144
"Jazzed"
www.allpoetry.com/poem/2008889
"Joni's Gift" (Joni Mitchell) (true story)
www.allpoetry.com/poem/696159
Acrostic ~ "Where Are You Going?" (Dave Matthews Band)
www.allpoetry.com/poem/2105255
Acrostic ~ "Building a Mystery" (Sarah MacLachlan)
www.allpoetry.com/poem/2105293
Rivers Cuomo (Weezer)
www.allpoetry.com/poem/1824933
"The Sounds of Silence" (Simon & Garfunkel)
www.allpoetry.com/poem/2178221
"White Room" (Cream)
www.allpoetry.com/poem/2178248
"How I Wish You Were (T)here" (Pink Floyd)
www.allpoetry.com/Poem/1799159
"Whisper on the Dark Side of the Moon" (Pink Floyd)
www.allpoetry.com/Poem/1800061
"The Passing Of The Victorian Age" (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
www.allpoetry.com/poem/701241
"Beyond Sound or Silence" (Octavio Paz)
www.allpoetry.com/poem/2188995
"The Strength of a Stonecutter's Arms" (Tom Cochrane)
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Maya Angelou - Woman Extraordinaire! by Oldpoetry; I-Like-Rhymes; rufina caraid, from Old PoetryMarguerite Annie Johnson, is 81 on 4th April - a small Birthday tribute to her! -
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98.6 Degrees Keith -
I Love Music (Pt 1) O'Jays
Keep On Truckin' (Pt 1) Eddie Kendricks -
'65 Love Affair-----Paul Davis
(I Just) Died In Your Arms-----Cutting Crew -
(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song B.J.Thomas
18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses---Kathy Mattea -
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'03 Bonnie & Clyde--------Jay-Z featuring Beyoncé Knowles
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Three Favorite Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
External Link
To Those Without Pity
Cruel of heart, lay down my song,
Your reading eyes have done me wrong,
Not for you was the pen bitten,
And the mind wrung, and the song written.
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
To Elinor Wylie
For you there is no song . . .
Only the shaking
Of the voice that meant to sing; the sound of the
strong
Voice breaking.
Strange in my hand appears
The pen, and yours broken.
There are ink and tears on the page; only the tears
Have spoken.
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Fig
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light.
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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