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Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1) — William Shakespeare

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life. — Marty Rubin

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. — Lawrence Summers

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet. — Lytton Strachey

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. — Simon Callow

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable. — Edith Sitwell

Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth. — Mary Oliver

Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented ... — Amy Lowell

She likes that and I like it too because to/make a thing true all you've/got to do is believe — Charles Bukowski

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power. — Walter Savage Landor

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. — Charles Baudelaire

Programming is not easy like Sunday morning, it is silent poetry. — Waseem Latif

Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page. — Li-Young Lee

There is another world, and it is in this one. — Paul Eluard

The world is full of poetry as the earth is of pay-dirt; one only needs to know how to strike it. — Charles Dudley Warner

I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it. — Natasha Trethewey

Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. — Benjamin Clementine

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. — Georges Braque

It is not our job to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves
Like the trees, and be born again,
Drawing up from the great roots. — Robert Bly

Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious. — Narendra Modi

the hope is small
but it is everything. — AVA.

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie
True Poems flee - — Emily Dickinson

A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true. — W. H. Auden

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. — John Cage

Must always try to be out there
Getting everything out there
Take what is inside yourself
And place it out there. — Initially NO

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. — Horace

When we know everything about this earth, the romance and poetry will all have been wiped away from it. There is nothing so artistic as a haze. — Arthur Conan Doyle

It's not what you go through that makes you strong: it is how you handle the situation that gives you strength. — Tanya R. Liverman

Wine is like poetry. If it's good wine. If it's not, then it's a tragedy. — Renee Carlino

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet. — Novalis

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves

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

Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason. — Thomas More

Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length. — George Santayana

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it. — Seamus Heaney

You will find meaning in life
only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed.
It is a song to be sung.It is a dance to be danced ... — Osho

And our love still is, it is because it goes, like a kiss, from mouth to mouth, repeating itself in silence. — Gwen Calvo

Only in Russia poetry is respected
it gets people killed. — Osip Mandelstam

Black Poetry is not for Black People ... it is for everybody — Nikki Giovanni

I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. — Derek Walcott

Every genuine poet is necessarily a Columbus. America existed for centuries before Columbus but it was only Columbus who was able to track it down. — Yevgeny Zamyatin

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration. — William Wordsworth

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier outside of it. — Multatuli

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will tell you what is poetry ...
It is a remote electronic claw picking up a stuffed bunny rabbit ... — Chelsey Minnis

It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of. — Cesare Pavese

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. — Vincent Van Gogh

It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is a life. — T. S. Eliot

Great poetry must be admired, because it is great and because it is poetry, and so we admire it. — Witold Gombrowicz

Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry. — Rajneesh

Today I want to leave the world
I want to leave the pain
Leave the heartache
I know where it is going
I want to see my Savior — April Nichole

Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor. — Christopher Caudwell

There are few things in this life more bamboo-under-fingernails than good poetry read aloud badly-unless it is bad poetry read aloud badly. — Josh Lanyon

You smile and draw me near and whisper, "Do as dreamers do."
I lean to you and whisper in your ear, "I cannot dream tonight my Dear. For it is you. — Shaun Hick

A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. — W. H. Auden

A thing is never untold, It is always misperceived. — Nishikant

Lord, decked with jewels, sitting at the head of a table. It is a poetry of assonance — Peter Ackroyd

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. — June Jordan

Prayer is a many fingered
and kaleidoscopic thing - it folds
and unfolds inside of you. It enters
the many rooms you cannot enter. — Cecilia Llompart

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels. — Natalie Goldberg

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. — Octavio Paz

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth. — Maxine Kumin

The mere ambition to write a poem is enough to kill it. — Henri Michaux

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life. — Walt Whitman

Would it have been worthwhile
If one settling a pillow by her head should say:
That is not what I meant at all
That is not it at all — T. S. Eliot

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. — Lascelles Abercrombie

World is suddener than we fancy it. — Louis MacNeice

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. — Carol Ann Duffy

You think it's a game?
Unintelligible? Ha!
Envision no spoons.

This is serious.
It is a matter of joy
versus emptiness. — Kristen Henderson

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

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem. — Tracy K. Smith

Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic? — Aristotle.

Every poem is unique to each person who reads it. — Salil Jha

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 not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation. — Joseph Brodsky

But sometimes a kiss is not a kiss is not a kiss. Sometimes it's a poetry. — Julie Buxbaum

Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry. — Vicente Aleixandre

The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring. — Caroline Kennedy

It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely. — Jane Austen

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. — Christian Louboutin

Life is as long as you live it. — Lashauna D. Hinton

The Sun is so magnificent how God created it — Martellis Thurmand

I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to. — Joan Larkin

Writing poetry is such an intense experience that it helps to start the process in a casual or wayward frame of mind. — Edward Hirsch

It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world. — Richard Eberhart

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess. — Alfred Austin

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

Come, my darling,
it is never too late
to begin
our love again. — Atticus Poetry

You'd think hindsight would do us some good
But all it does sometimes
Is add glass to the kaleidoscope — J.D. Estrada

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

Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose. — David Joseph Cribbin

I'll enjoy today while it's here, using the time wisely. Each day is a gift that soon becomes a memory. — Lina Rehal

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly. — Sarah Kay

Most of my life is in the past.
There goes some more of it.

I taught my sheep how to fight lions
so I would have more time — Chad Sweeney

A word is elegy to what it signifies. — Robert Haas

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football. — Robert Frost

A life without poetry is a life without heart, without laughter, without crying - it's a life without feelings. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann