Poetry Wall Inductees

Emily Dickinson
1830-1886
Captivity is
Consciousness-
So's Liberty

Washington Irving
1783-1859
Pioneering man
of letters

Walt Whitman
1819-1892
I stop somewhere
waiting for you

Herman Melville
1819-1891
The running battle
of the star and clod

Edgar Allan Poe
1809-1849
Out of Space-
Out of Time

Robert Frost
1874-1963
I had a lover's
quarrel with
the world

Nathaniel Hawthorne
1804-1864
On A Field, Sable.
The Letter A. Gules.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882
Give me Truths,
For I am weary
of the surfaces

Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)
1835-1910
There was things
which he stretched,
but mainly he
told the truth.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862
Be it life or death,
we crave only reality

Henry James
1843-1916
Live all you can,
it's a mistake not to.

Wallace Stevens
1879-1955
Oh! Blessed rage
for order.

William Faulkner
1887-1962
Truth is one.
It doesn't change.

Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot
1888-1965
And let my cry
come unto thee

Willa Cather
1873-1947
Thy will be done in
art as it is in heaven

Marianna Moore
1887-1972
Beauty is everlasting
and dust is for a time

Edwin Arlington Robinson
1865-1935
Of his plain
excellence and
stubborn skill,
There yet remains
what fashion
cannot kill.

William Carlos Williams
1883-1963
...a reply to the Greek
and Latin with the
bare hands

Edith Wharton
1862-1937
There is no end
to life in its mercy
as in its pain

Stephen Crane
1871-1900
The nearer an artist
gets to life
the greater he
becomes as an artist

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807-1882
Dust now art,
to dust returnest,
Was not spoken
of the soul.

Hart Crane
1899-1932
Permit me voyage,
love, into your hands

Anne Bradstreet
1612-1672
Nor wit nor gold
nor buildings
'scape time's rust.
But he whose name
is graved in the
white stone shall
last and shine when
all of these are gone.

William Cullen Bryant
1749-1878
And to the beautiful
order of thy works
learn to Conform the
order of our lives.

Elizabeth Bishop
1911-1979
All the untidy
activity continues,
awful but cheerful

Langston Hughes
1902-1967
My soul has grown
deep like the rivers

Ernest Hemingway
1899-1961
All you have to do
is write one
true sentence

John Greenleaf Whittier
1807-1892
Life is ever lord
of Death And Love
can never lose
its own.

Louise Bogan
1897-1970
Vision of Earth Heal
and recieve me.

E.E. Cummings
1894-1962
A world of made is
not a world of born

Theodore Roethke
1908-1963
I learn by going
where I have to go.

William Dean Howells
1837-1920
Ah, poor Real Life,
Which I love...

F. Scott Fitzgerald
1896-1940
So we beat on,
boats against
the current borne
back ceaselessly
into the past

Edna St. Vincent
1892-1950
Take up the song;
forget the epitaph.

Gertrude Stein
1874-1946
Let me recite what
history teaches.
History teaches.

Robert Lowell
1917-1977
Stand and live,
The dove has brought
an olive branch to eat

Robert Hayden
1913-1980
What did I know,
what did I know
of love's austere and
lonely offices?

W.H. Auden
1907-1973
If equal affection
cannot be,
Let the more loving
one be me

Emma Lazarus
1849-1887
Born from blank
darkness to this
blaze of beauty,
Where is thy faith,
and where are thy
thanksgivings?

Robinsn Jeffers
1887-1962
Yet stones have
stood for a thousand
years, and pained
thoughts found
The honey of peace
in old poems.

Phillis Wheatley
1753-1784
Enlarge the close
contracted mind,
and fill it with thy fire.

Tennessee Williams
1911-1983
Time is the longest
distance between
two places

Sylvia Plath
1932-1963
This is the light
of the mind,
cold and planetary

James Baldwin
1924-1987
Artists are here
to disturb the peace

Katherine Anne Porter
1890-1980
Love must be learned,
and learned
again and again;
there is no end to it

John Allyn Berryman
1914-1972
Once in a sycamore
I was glad all at
the top, and I sang.

Mary Flannery O'Connor
1925-1964
I can, with one eye
squinted, take it all
as a blessing.

Zora Neale Hurston
1891-1960
The dream
is the truth.

Eugene O'Neill
1888-1953
For a second
you see - and
seeing the secret,
are the secret.

Jean Toomer
1894-1967
...My thoughts were
like matches tossed
into a dark window.

Carl Sandburg
1878-1967
I am the audience
that witnesses history.

Ralph Ellison
1914-1994
Who knows but that,
on the lower
frequencies,
I speak for you?

Harriet Jacobs
1813-1897
Slavery is terrible
for men, but it is
far more terrible
for women.

Audre Lorde
1934-1992
When we speak
we are afraid our
words will not be
heard or welcomed.
Bu when we are
silent, we are still
afraid. So it is better
to speak.

Muriel Rukeyser
1913-1980
What would happen
if one woman
told the truth
about her life?
The world would
split open

Lorraine Hansberry
1930-1965
...though it be
a thrilling and
marvelous thing
to be merely
young and gifted
in such times,
it is doubly dynamic-
to be young, gifted,
and black.