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I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry. — Vijay Seshadri

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly ... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. — F.L. Lucas

Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things — Ilyas Kassam

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly. — Boyd K. Packer

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry. — Sean O Faolain

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

Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things. — Lisel Mueller

One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music. — Vincent Van Gogh

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people. — Michael Longley

How much does he lack himself who must have many things? — Sen No Rikyu

Poetry is my first love. Photography often fails to look into things. It looks at things. Poetry is so much more truthful. — Larry Towell

In dividing the light, things are seen. And we notice ourselves. — John Allison

Oh, the things we invent when we are scared
and want to be rescued. — Richard Siken

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.
These two things are one. — Wallace Stevens

]
]you will remember
]for we in our youth
did these things

yes many and beautiful things
]
]
] — Sappho

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things. — Gaston Bachelard

It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come. -Winnie-the-Pooh — A.A. Milne

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. — Matthew Arnold

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again. — T. S. Eliot

As with life's finer things, Poetry is created to be savored, not consumed. — Branch Isole

To be held in his arms
I long for that day
The da that I get to see
more wonderful things — April Nichole

And it made his heart shake to hear these things in the street or bus or dime store, the uninventable poetry, inside the pain, of what people say. — Don DeLillo

We do not live in a world of things
but among benedictions given
and--do you know what I'm saying?--received. — Irving Feldman

Things are more like they are now ... than they have EVER been before! — Uncle Arnie Mamath

Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Holding a tiny dixie cup in my hand makes me feel like a giant human being that can crush things — Brandon Scott Gorrell

And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things? — Owen Barfield

Things change, time changes. People change, life changes. Time changes things, life changes people. — Aline Alzime

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things. — Frederick Buechner

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton. — Terence McKenna

How strange
it is. For perfect things in poetry do not seem strange;
they seem inevitable. And so we hardly thank the
writer for his pains. — Jorge Luis Borges

That your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
our century.
(from the poem: result) — Charles Bukowski

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. — Stephane Mallarme

I tell you, if you feel strange,
strange things will happen to you:
Fallen peacocks on library shelves — Rita Dove

Don't ask me any questions. I've seen how things that seek their way find their void instead. — Federico Garcia Lorca

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. — Howard Nemerov

Amid these fading and decaying things, be the glass that rings out as it's breaking. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together. — Brenda Sutton Rose

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated. — John Berger

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them. — Dejan Stojanovic

This dark December day inspires him to write / the plainest things in the snow, then walk away. — Chard DeNiord

I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry. — Natasha Trethewey

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it. — Helen Mirren

You see.. I have this book. Within the pages of this book are things that I should've told you. I call this book "Hesitation". — Andrew King

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life. — Billy Collins

A presence is made of the tiniest things. I sweep you up softly. You stayed too long. How is it you fly with every good intention. — Farrah Field

As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary. — Eileen Myles

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets. — R.H. Blyth

Some things are not always what they appear to be.
Your thoughts lead you as far as the eyes can see. — Laqueisha Malone

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things. — Clive Barker

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have words. — Amy King

At the end of all things, why do lovers break up?

Because love is magic. You have to believe, for it to exist. — Timothy Joshua

there are only so many things
that you can fix with your hands.

...What they don't realize is I am not a thing to fix. — Danabelle Gutierrez

Poetry is a counterfeit creation, and makes things that are not, as though they were — John Donne

His first word, his first day at junior high. Nonsense things, the deepest, most important poetry of my life. — Sebastian Barry

All things want to float. — Rainer Maria Rilke

There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory. — Peter Davison

Glory be to God for dappled things.
("Pied Beauty") — Gerard Manley Hopkins

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

The funny thing
about
advice is,
we always tell
others
the things
we
cannot
really do
ourselves. — Robert M. Drake

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

things keep falling in and out of place.
this is the universe's way of taking care of me. — AVA.

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

Dear Forgiveness, you know that recently
we have had our difficulties and there are many things
I want to ask you. — Richard Siken

The things you let go will someday teach you how to fly. — Jenim Dibie

I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me. — Jenim Dibie

everyone is in a hurry and things are always disappearing, and i am always left standing here--
alone, waiting for the things that stay. — AVA.

Heavy as such things are
After the wordslide, the writing begins."
From "Word Quake — Eileen Granfors

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things. — John Dewey

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice. — Thomas Aquinas

There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry. — Rupert Brooke

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 have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does. — Robert Morgan

Poetry?"
...
"No, just thoughts, glimpses, things running through my head. — Mary E. Pearson

some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

and some things will only
... live in poems. — Sanober Khan

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

What
a strange
world.
We
trade our days
for things. — Atticus Poetry

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

I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny. — Stephen Malkmus

We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. — Naomi Klein

i let you love me.
i let you take care of me.
i let you do things to me
no one was allowed to do before. — AVA.

Taking things for granted is a terrible disease. We should all be checking ourselves regularly for signs of it. — Kate Tempest

He lived to near the things he loved to seem poetical. — E. M. Forster

Poetry wants to make things mean more than they mean, says someone, as if we knew how much things meant, and in what unit of measure. — Rae Armantrout

Will no one tell me what she sings? Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy, far-off things
And battles long ago. — William Wordsworth

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

I think one of the things that distinguished my work from the beginning when I was in college was my turning towards poetry from other countries. — Edward Hirsch

I came to you tardy and late
as I usually do to the better things in my life — Christy Brown

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them. — John Fowles

I write because there are things in me that cannot die. — Sanober Khan

Poetry is not a way of saying things; it's a way of seeing things. — Karl Shapiro

Rat sculled gently homewards in a dreamy mood, murmuring poetry-things over to himself, — Kenneth Grahame

Don't strive to sound poetic. Strive to sound genuine in your writing and you will find poetry in the most mundane things in life. — Bobby Hundley

And feelings were always smarter things than thoughts — Andrea Gibson

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality. — Edward Hirsch

We love the things we love for what they are. — Robert Frost

A poet often lives in an enchanted land where he sees things not with his eyes but with his feelings. — Debasish Mridha

I hate the day, because it lendeth light
To see all things, but not my love to see. — Edmund Spenser

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases ... — Pablo Neruda

The sun surrendered its splendor - why, it was like poetry; he was a poet; Norman smiled. He was many things. If they only knew - - But — Robert Bloch