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After a night of insomnia the body gets weaker,Becomes dear but no one's - not even your own. — Marina Tsvetaeva
May, and after a rainy springWe walk streets gallant with rhododendrons. — Alicia Suskin Ostriker
All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A poem is a 'line' between any two points in creation.
— Charles Olson
Your life is a poetry with purpose.
— Debasish Mridha
I started writing poetry and philosophy when I was 17 years old and my mind so was wild. Now I'm 56 and I often want to write like a child.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
concept: me, wandering through the morning fog of a flowery hillside. the world is still and silent and calm
— L.J. Buchanan
I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.
— Jenny Eclair
I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.
— Edward Hirsch
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
— Wallace Stevens
I will greet you with a mouth full of barbed wire until you learn to stop coming after me with your hands.
— Trista Mateer
I aspire to bean old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild youth. — Atticus Poetry
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
— Natasha Trethewey
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
— Oscar Wilde
Stop the tape, cut the paper! I will just write another poem and grab a microphone and push record again!
— Delano Johnson
Over the water of time I call to youIn a language I do not know. — Ellen S. Jaffe
Imagine a sunset, lavender and red / as battered morals ...
— Sarah Gorham
The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.
— Amy Clampitt
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Life remains unchangedtill a leap of faith
runs towards heaven — Santosh Kalwar
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.
— Gustave Flaubert
Be a poet in action as well as in words.
— Marty Rubin
Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.
— Stephanie Hemphill
You're a defiant actof creation. — Elisabeth Hewer
Poetry of the universe is written with flowers and the lights of love on a canvas we call earth.
— Debasish Mridha
what is a journeywithout someone who wanders
if sometimes a pair
is made of two — Lori Jenessa Nelson
I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
— Sylvia Plath
But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it.
— Wislawa Szymborska
It's not easy to write a poem about a poem.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Every single soul is a poem.
— Michael Franti
Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery! — E.A. Bucchianeri
I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. — Sylvia Plath
I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it.
— John McPhee
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
— E. M. Forster
Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.
— Pietros Maneos
True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,But found in the soul within. — E.A. Bucchianeri
None of her spells are planned, but come to her like snatches of poetry or a doodle on a napkin.
— Sheri Holman
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)
— William Shakespeare
Grace will dropinto your pocket
on a day of waning light- — Laurel Garver
Ocean waves gently rock the boat,As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky. — Rachel Lewis
No, thank you," he flashed that grin of his. "I've been wondering what the lair of a poetry-inclined psychologist looks like.
— Gina Marinello-Sweeney
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
— James Joyce
The glamorous life is a facade, a frauda farce of frivolous trite
The storybook is blank inside
Chivalry has died — Donato DiCristino
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
— John Masefield
Go on down to the local palm reader,she'll spit out exactly what you feed her
because honey, you already knew
your husband was a cheater. — Casey Renee Kiser
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write.
— Benjamin Clementine
Two girls discover the secret of lifein a sudden line of poetry. — Denise Levertov
To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.
— Pattiann Rogers
Poets should never stop writing, because their words could be a powerful inspiration to someone else, whether it be now or 100 years from today.
— Delano Johnson
What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.
— Octavio Paz
The history of man is a must read poetry.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.
— George Steiner
Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.
— Babette Deutsch
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it. — Craig Johnson
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
— Carl Sandburg
Within my palm there is a world, a world as delicate as a bubble!
— Preeth Nambiar
To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.
— Frank Horvat
I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.
— Stephen Fry
Winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird ...
— John Geddes
I used to hold a fiery windand I tried to determine the direction
where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini
A lie is still a lieeven if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
— Cesare Pavese
Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.
— Jenim Dibie
If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a strange
world.
We
trade our days
for things. — Atticus Poetry
How they had dreamed together, he and she ... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the very heart of poetry.
— Elizabeth Von Arnim
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
The world is a navy in an empty ocean.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.
— Derek Walcott
I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.
— Neil Gaiman
Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight ... every word is war.
— Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.
— Tracy K. Smith
Death stoops over me.I'm a problem in chess. He
has the solution. — Tomas Transtromer
Let it never be said / there can be a Heaven / without fresh bread.
— Glenn Logan Reitze
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[Wine is] poetry in a bottle.
— Clifton Fadiman
I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.
— Luke Treadaway
