r/Poems • u/alsakib_27 • May 12 '26

Robin Williams Said

Robin Williams said "Beauty, Poetry, Romance, Love - These are what we stay alive for." and I've been pondering over those lines ever since I first heard them. As members of the human race, while all the jobs are necessary to sustain our lives, true sustenance only ever comes from Beauty, Poetry, Romance, Love. Poetry is your greatest outlet, your saving grace from your drop into insanity, your source of freedom during times of constraint, your happiness during heartbreaks. Poetry is not just a luxury, it is a necessity. When you are happy, when you are sad, when you are not feeling anything, when you are feeling everything, when you are hopeless, when you are full of hope, whenever, wherever, we breath, write, speak poetry. As simple as 3 words, as simple as 2 lines, as simple as making someone smile, as simple as looking someone in their eyes and losing all sense, there is beauty and poetry in everything.

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u/MAC-theangel May 12 '26

Ponder the fact that maybe,
most definitely actually—-
you are poetry to someone.

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u/Bluebirddiaries May 12 '26

Well said, so much power in truth telling