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What I want to know is how you go on when you look around
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have. — Charlotte Eriksson
and don't see anywhere you want to go without the only person
you can't have. — Charlotte Eriksson
Neither pathway is correct.
— Azaam Yahoo
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
concept: me, wandering through the morning fog of a flowery hillside. the world is still and silent and calm
— L.J. Buchanan
Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.
— Katerina Stoykova Klemer
Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory. — Dejan Stojanovic
The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media, I said, meaninglessly.
— Ben Lerner
Yoga is an exact science in the form of poetry when we measure the flow of neurotransmitters in the brain.
— Amit Ray
This is why I write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word.
— Odysseus Elytis
Poetry is the most concentrated form of literature; it is the most emotionalized and powerful way in which thought can be presented ...
— Amy Lowell
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.
— Wallace Stevens
Poetry is the deification of reality.
— Edith Sitwell
The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — 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
The business of love is
cruelty which,
by our wills,
we transform
to live together. — William Carlos Williams
cruelty which,
by our wills,
we transform
to live together. — William Carlos Williams
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
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.
— W. H. Auden
The points are not the point; the point is poetry.
— Allan Wolf
The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.
— Amy Clampitt
Poetry is an orphan of silence.
— Charles Simic
Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart
— Kristi Maxwell
Poetry of the universe is written with flowers and the lights of love on a canvas we call earth.
— Debasish Mridha
Poetry is the dark side of the moon,
— Charles Wright
The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table.
— Yvor Winters
There is no born lover,
There is no born Don Juan,
For we are all lovers. — Dejan Stojanovic
There is no born Don Juan,
For we are all lovers. — Dejan Stojanovic
If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money
— Robert Graves
Every single soul is a poem.
— Michael Franti
I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I'm trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.
— Sarah Kay
God is busy and has no time for you.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.
— Tracy K. Smith
The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud
a farce of frivolous trite
The storybook is blank inside
Chivalry has died — Donato DiCristino
a farce of frivolous trite
The storybook is blank inside
Chivalry has died — Donato DiCristino
Poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value.
— Major Jackson
I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper.
— Nicole Lyons
Trust is when we plummet into the depths of an abyss and reach out for each other's hands.
-Amaderan Poetry, various authors — Marie Lu
-Amaderan Poetry, various authors — Marie Lu
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
Romance is the poetry of literature.
— Suzanne Curchod
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.
— John Masefield
Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.
— Vicente Aleixandre
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
— James Joyce
The biggest problem is people are afraid of poetry, think they can't understand it or that it will be boring.
— Caroline Kennedy
This is where I belong, burning in these flames. For everything I have done wrong, I know I am to blame.
— Atarah L. Poling
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its poetry and romance.
— Ada Leverson
Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.
— Pietros Maneos
The Sun is so magnificent how God created it
— Martellis Thurmand
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
There is always the question why
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic
And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic
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
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
— Novalis
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the low and offensive.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Within my palm there is a world, a world as delicate as a bubble!
— Preeth Nambiar
Th' unconquerable will,/ And study of revenge, immortal hate,/ And courage never to submit or yield/ And what is else not to be overcome?
— John Milton
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
The difference between poetry and rhetoric
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children. — Audre Lorde
is being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children. — Audre Lorde
At times, love is silent because of too much hurt or too much care. At all times,
love is the strongest voice you can always rely on. — Soar
love is the strongest voice you can always rely on. — Soar
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
— George Orwell
i do not know how to live tepidly.
i was never built to fit in.
i live by my soul
and my soul is insane. — AVA.
i was never built to fit in.
i live by my soul
and my soul is insane. — AVA.
A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon
even if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
— William Blake
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
I lean to you and whisper in your ear, "I cannot dream tonight my Dear. For it is you. — Shaun Hick
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
[Wine is] poetry in a bottle.
— Clifton Fadiman
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
Did you tell them that you made love to the poet?
Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy? — Danabelle Gutierrez
Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy? — Danabelle Gutierrez
Unconditional love is furnished by many 4 legged creatures, but chiefly by human kinds best friend DOG!
— Ladee Basset
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
Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
— Samuel Johnson
Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight ... every word is war.
— Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
True poetry (inspired by the Muse and her prime symbol, the moon) even today is a survival, or intuitive re-creation, of the ancient Goddess-worship.
— Robert Graves
Discovery's friend is creativity
— Phillip Gary Smith
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
Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
— Carl Sandburg
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.
— Alfred Austin
It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.
— Richard Eberhart
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