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From time immemorial, symbolism and poetry have been inseparable. Like a pirate and his rum. — Haruki Murakami

To them, eternal life begins
And God Himself shall wipe away all tears. — Timothy Salter

Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time. — James Crumley

Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so.
from the prose poem INNOCENCE — Jay Woodman

I was always yours to have.
You were always mine.
We have loved each other in and out of time. — Maya Angelou

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition. — Ernest Shackleton

If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things. — The Prolific Penman

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. — T. S. Eliot

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying. — Robert Herrick

Dancing to the sounds of trees and stones and slow minutes ticking in our hearts and bones. — Jay Woodman

They say that history is going on somewhere.
They say it won't stop. I have held
One picture still for a long time and waited. — William Stafford

Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea. — Dylan Thomas

I'm fighting my way into existence, and I will keep doing so until the end of time. — Charlotte Eriksson

Art is long, and Time is fleeting. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O deaf and mute
and blind and beautiful and interminable rose
who into time, attar and verse transmute — Cecilia Meireles

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become. — Carol Ann Duffy

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. — John Ashbery

The wind went mute and the trees in the forest stood still. It was time for the last tale. — Lawren Leo

Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourth
of July, I'll bow and remember you. Who
shall we follow next? Who shall we kill
next time? — William Stafford

The most racket time of the year for those that don't know, is the warmest of the four seasons and the winter as it is so cold and felt in your heart. — Auliq Ice

It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road. — Virginia Woolf

And when I feel
the masks beneath
crumble and fade with
time I build new ones
to replace the old.
"Masks"- Sins Within — Shay Leigh

Poetry isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that doesn't feel relevant. — Eliza Griswold

She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes." ~Once Upon A Time There Was A Girl — Kimberly Kinrade

Love is not given unless you give everything you have and that is your time for the one's you love — Martellis Thurmand

I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were poems. — Norman Lock

Time is all we have and don't. — Atticus Poetry

Poetry is a slipknot tightened around a time-beat of one thought, two thoughts, and a last interweaving thought there is not yet a number for. — Carl Sandburg

If I'm not around
I hope you'll remember me
and together we will hold on to our favorite song. — Sanober Khan

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out. — Andrea Gibson

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time. — Jack Nicholson

Once upon a time
I fell in love
Lost myself
And find another one. — Arzum Uzun

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. — Roberto Bolano

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Had we but world enough, and time — Andrew Marvell

I am trying to both be happy and pay attention to the world around me. I do not know if it is possible to do both at the same time. — Blythe Baird

Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible. — Dana Gould

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

And oft the blessed time foretells
When all men shall be free;
And musical, as silver bells,
Their falling chains shall be. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone. — Claudio Magris

We are all the fools of time and terror: Days
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die. — George Gordon Byron

After all, these were blood drinkers, beings who spoke gently, liked poetry, and yet killed mortals all the time. — Anne Rice

the time will come, my dear
when I will hold you close

and all will be
right again
in the world. — Sanober Khan

It's a hard time to be human. We know too much
and too little. — Ellen Bass

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever. — Rebecca West

I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. — William Shakespeare

Time is in essence separation; separation produces pain; pain poesis; and poesis is what constitutes the unending stream of human life in this world. — Ananya Vajpeyi

Times change, as do our wills, What we are - is ever changing; All the world is made of change, And forever attaining new qualities. — Luis Vaz De Camoes

Today is such a lovely day,
my heart is dancing with joy.
My mind is flowing with time
and my soul is longing for your soul. — Debasish Mridha

Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time. — Martin Amis

I blink January's lashes
and gush down December's cheeks — Sanober Khan

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive. — Mary Stewart

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. — Adrian Mitchell

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. — William Butler Yeats

Books measure time in both moments and years.
We all grow old but the stories never will. — R.M. Engelhardt

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. — Henry Miller

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. — David McCullough

Paradise is no whim.
It takes time and trust,
You see. — Scott Hastie

The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time
music and poetry
and not the arts of space
sculpture and painting. — Salvador De Madariaga

Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,
And what is invisible stays that way. — Mark Strand

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine. — Alice McDermott

We cannot always cry at the right time
and who is to say which time is right? — Madeleine L'Engle

What is this life so full of care,
We don't have time to stand and stare. — W.H. Davies

We should've
thrown fucking riots
the first time they
had us ring up
and bag our own
groceries — Phil Volatile

I imagined I was God for a millisecond
And became speechless for a long time. — Dejan Stojanovic

God is busy and has no time for you. — Dejan Stojanovic

It's very difficult to look at the World
and into your heart at the same time.
In between, a life has passed. — Jim Harrison

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age. — Rita Dove

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. — Paul Dirac

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. — Dave Beard

I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a little taller
Than when I went. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you. — Virginia Woolf

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write. — Shane McCrae

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time future contained in time past. — T. S. Eliot

Determined, I rise
and face the dawn with resolve.
This time I will win. — Richelle E. Goodrich