Quote of the Day #23 Poetry is the Evidence of Life
@Michellekidwell (29260)
Sonora, California
June 14, 2019 4:39pm CST
As a poet, and a novelist, I find that this quote really speaks to me!
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
Leonard Cohen
Do you find that this quote speaks to you? Does it inspire you, perhaps to create something beautiful?
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@pumpkinjam (8535)
• United Kingdom
19 Jun 19
It hasn't inspired me but it does make sense. I have a poetry blog. I haven't written on it for a while but you can tell how my life was, and how it has changed, through the poems that are there.
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@pumpkinjam (8535)
• United Kingdom
20 Jun 19
@Michellekidwell my inspiration comes from the people in my life and from my own experiences.
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@Michellekidwell (29260)
• Sonora, California
19 Jun 19
Sorry it hasn’t Inspired you!
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@Michellekidwell (29260)
• Sonora, California
20 Jun 19
@pumpkinjam Mine does as well, but certain people I find motivating as well, Helen Keller is definitely among those!
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@MommyOfEli2013 (81957)
• Rupert, Idaho
15 Jun 19
I like this quote, and I agree with you (being a poet/artist myself)
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@Michellekidwell (29260)
• Sonora, California
17 Jun 19
It’s a great quote isn’t it!
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@DesirousDreamer (34783)
• Peoria, Arizona
14 Jun 19
I interpreted this is a way different way haha I thought of it more of if your life is going "well" then your art is not burning, it is just ashes and someone needs to have a fire lit in their life, a new challenge, to keep going.
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@Michellekidwell (29260)
• Sonora, California
14 Jun 19
It’s definitely up to interpretation, that is the very essence of poetry and art in general!
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@LindaOHio (155843)
• United States
14 Jun 19
Even though I just finished writing on my blog, I feel pretty uninspired at the moment; so I'm not the person to ask. lol ...but that's a good quote!
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@Michellekidwell (29260)
• Sonora, California
14 Jun 19
Lol I think we all have moments like that!
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@innertalks (21013)
• Australia
21 Jun 19
I guess he means that our lives produce good poems, or are a work of art, if we live them fully, or something like that.
We write our life into God's poetry book of love, and the type of poems in there reflect the circuitous routes that lives often take. If at the end of a life, all you see are ashes, it could mean either one of two things.
You have burnt out fully, and lived fully, or your life has been one of consumateness, and the emptiness is complete, apart from the poetry written here forever.
