Things I Didn’t Write
Below are some poems, articles, excerpts and letters that have touched or inspired me over my lifetime
Psalm of Life by Longfellow has been my favorite since i was 12
Letters to a Young Poet by Rilkie, I actually first heard as an excerpt at a friend’s wedding
The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll is a classic
Not a Poem About Driving at Night by Meitner is a poem I recently saw on Slate.com that was written pretty recently.
Eloisa to Abelard by Pope is the poem the “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” takes it’s title from.
This one is just a quote from a book by Nancy Etcoff about Beauty.
A Dream by Poe is prototypical haggard melancholy from the master of the art.
Lord Byron is one of my favorites from back in middle school/high school and I think my affinity to “She Walks in Beauty” dates back to my first viewing of “Dead Poets Society.”
Three of my favorites from Emily Dickinson….if you were coming, i died for beauty, and hope is.
I guess most don’t know that “Yes, Virginia, There Really is a Santa Claus” was an actual New York Sun column.
If, by Rudyard Kipling is one of the world’s finest examples of father to son advice.
Elizabeth Barret Browning wrote one of the most famous love poems of all time in How Do I Love Thee? It is also the poem I recited to Lillis at our engagement.
William Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud was one of my favorites when I was younger.
“I Am Not Yours” by Sarah Teasdale is one of my favorite’s that I’ve read recently
