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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
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
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
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
Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious.
— Narendra Modi
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
Must always try to be out thereGetting everything out there
Take what is inside yourself
And place it out there. — Initially NO
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
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
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 respectedit 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
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
Today I want to leave the worldI 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
A lie is still a lieeven 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
Lord, decked with jewels, sitting at the head of a table. It is a poetry of assonance
— Peter Ackroyd
Prayer is a many fingeredand 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
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
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.
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
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
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 goodBut 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
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
