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Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew.
— Anthony Hecht
A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is ... like a life without pictures.
— Stephen King
Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I? — Theodore Roethke
Abolish these categories of pain(or is it love)
Let it all be one pain
Pain swallows itself, dies like a star. — Alice Notley
The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.
— Rumi
She likes that and I like it too because to/make a thing true all you've/got to do is believe
— Charles Bukowski
Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.
— Amy Dickinson
Change like a treeWhen it is winter
Don't complain or fear
Just wait for the spring
To bloom and sing — Debasish Mridha
Free verse is like free love; it is a contradiction in terms.
— G.K. Chesterton
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.
— Diane Wakoski
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
My ear is not working, my poetry ear. I can't write a line that doesn't sound like pots and pans falling out of the cupboard.
— Jane Kenyon
Dancing is very like poetry.
— Martha Graham
The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.
— Louis Pasteur
Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.
— William Everson
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
— Gary Shteyngart
Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.
— Osbert Sitwell
For spirits like ours, freedom is consumption, transportation on beams of sun
— Terrence Alonzo Craft
A truth should exist,it should not be used
like this. If I love you
is that a fact or a weapon? — Margaret Atwood
The pen to a writer is like a cigarette to a smoker; they need it to take the edge off.
— Kellie Elmore
LIFE IS A JOURNEY
TO FIND
THE
PEOPLE
WEIRD
LIKE YOU.
- ATTICUS — Atticus Poetry
I laugh when people say they don't like poetry. They listen to poetry every day, what do they think music is?
— Shannon Lynette
Love's language is imprecise,fits more like mittens than gloves. — Jeannine Atkins
Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly.
— Norman Davies
Poetry is such an amazing feeling that flows like a river.
— Euginia Herlihy
There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.
— Raegan Butcher
Like the number nineeternity is forever mine — Kenneth G. Ortiz
Poetry is like passion--it should not be merely pretty; it should overwhelm and bruise.
— Kate Quinn
Poetry is more than just art, it's like super glue to a broken heart. It can also be a light when your life seems a little dark.
— Delano Johnson
I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
— Ellen Hopkins
We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.
— Ashly Lorenzana
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[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.
— Mark Twain
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
— Robert Penn Warren
Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
— W.S. Merwin
Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.
— William Carlos Williams
Dancing is like poetry written by our bodies: our outstretched arms our words of longing.
— Lene Fogelberg
My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.
— S. Jane Sloat
Maybe tranquility is the dirt under my nails. I know it's there but I never feel like digging it out.
— Casey Renee Kiser
Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.
— James Buchan
The wheat field has ... poetry; it is like a memory of something one has once seen. We can only make our pictures speak.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.
— Robert Graves
Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
— Don Marquis
Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.
— David Lee Roth
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so ...
— Izaak Walton
I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.
— Miller Williams
I say every dog looks like no otherbut that isn't true. Not entirely.
Difference is slippery. — Mary Jo Bang
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged
— John Maynard Keynes
A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.
— W. H. Auden
Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.
— Billy Collins
And our love still is, it is because it goes, like a kiss, from mouth to mouth, repeating itself in silence.
— Gwen Calvo
Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.
— Robert Frost
One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.
— Maxine Kumin
He remembers which sisterI like least and asks
how she is doing.
(lines 9-11 of the poem 'Divorce') — Carrie Etter
My love is like the red red roseThat's newly sprung in June
O my love's like the melody
That's newly played in tune — Robert Burns
Friday night's alright for fightingSaturday, Sunday, Monday too
Every night is a night of fighting
With family and friends like you — Jessica-Lynn Barbour
Poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.
— Major Jackson
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
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.
— Cesare Pavese
I think that the habit of gloomy poetry is very funny. It's like a special competition in losing.
— Miroslav Holub
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.
— George Gissing
Poetry is like ... first all you have is ... A line weaving through your mind
Like the tail of a child's kite
Unfettered by reason or rhyme. — Vaddey Ratner
Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.
— Dejan Stojanovic
My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the lifethe poetry. — Le Corbusier
This is why there is poetry. For days like these.
— Paula McLain
Attending a poetry reading is like being in a hospital," he said as we left the next station. "Full of neuroses.
— Karl Ove Knausgard
You say love's so important, but how can you prove it?Love is like soap, it works if you use it. — Dominic Smith
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner life.
— C.D. Wright
Poetry is not made to be sucked up like a child's milkshake, it is much better sipped like a precious malt whisky.
— Stephen Fry
Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves
— Lorna Goodison
A poem is like a penny; each word has its worth!
— Carl McKever
