📜 Words that Whisper: Textual Triggers

Let a powerful quote, line of dialogue, or short extract from another text 📖 inspire your own poem. Whether you agree, disagree, or reimagine their words—it’s your turn to speak back through an evocative poem.

• Extract 1

  “Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”

  - Sydney J Harris

• Extract 2

  “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

  - William Faulkner

• Extract 3

  “Dread grief trails bright phantoms in its wake. These spirits are ideas, essentially; they are our stunned imaginations reawakening after the calamity.”

  -Nick Cave

• Extract 4

  “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”

  - Malala Yousafzai

• Extract 5

  “Remember that hope is a powerful weapon even when all else is lost.”

  - Nelson Mandela

• Extract 6

  "If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants."

  - Isaac Newton

• Extract 7

  “Creating a nation requires the will of the people”

  - Edmund Barton

• Extract 8

  “There is still so much time to be all that you want to be.”

  - Bella Hadid