Poetry Quotes
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Poetry Quotes & Sayings
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I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart againstThe want of you;
Of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it. — Amy Lowell
Poetry will die when love and pain cease to exist.
— Kellie Elmore
All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
concept: me, wandering through the morning fog of a flowery hillside. the world is still and silent and calm
— L.J. Buchanan
She would remain forever young, forever noble, forever his blessedness, and not all the poetry in the world could express his devotion to her.
— Sylvain Reynard
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 withoutthem.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski
The business of love iscruelty which,
by our wills,
we transform
to live together. — William Carlos Williams
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests
— Karl Lagerfeld
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 am sonnets full of stardust within the meter of my skin.
— Patricia Robin Woodruff
Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there.
— Oscar Wilde
Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
The points are not the point; the point is poetry.
— Allan Wolf
Imagine a sunset, lavender and red / as battered morals ...
— Sarah Gorham
The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear.
— Amy Clampitt
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
— Rupert Brooke
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous.
— Gustave Flaubert
Be a poet in action as well as in words.
— Marty Rubin
Gonna cuss an' swear an' here the poetry of folks talkin'.
— John Steinbeck
Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.
— Dejan Stojanovic
Knowing you, I understood myself.
— Kamand Kojouri
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.
— Carl Sandburg
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
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.
— Alfred Austin
Poets should never stop writing, because their words could be a powerful inspiration to someone else, whether it be now or 100 years from today.
— Delano Johnson
It is what man does not know of God Composes the visible poem of the world.
— Richard Eberhart
Poetry is a storm asking peace to dance with her.
— Jenim Dibie
When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.
— Cesare Pavese
What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.
— Octavio Paz
Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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
How quiet the writing, how noisy the printing.
— Marina Tsvetaeva
The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.
— Juefan Huihong
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[Wine is] poetry in a bottle.
— Clifton Fadiman
Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.
— Robert Breault
I'm only interested in poetry.
— Charles Bukowski
Destroy thefear in you
before the
fear destroys
the life
before you. — Robert M. Drake
Starving artist: starving for affection, starving for attention
— Jessica-Lynn Barbour
When a boy I could never bear to read any Poetry whatever without disgust and reluctance," he said.32 He
— Benita Eisler
My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.
— George Steiner
Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.
— Jack London
Winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird ...
— John Geddes
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
My work should be seen as poetry.
— Robert Wilson
The difference between poetry and rhetoricis being ready to kill
yourself
instead of your children. — Audre Lorde
Being an American in Australia isn't easy,but I'm trying to integrate, I'm trying to fit in. — Billy Marshall Stoneking
I used to hold a fiery windand I tried to determine the direction
where poetry would fly. — Alda Merini
someday i will walk under the soul-blossom tree
with my hand eternally woven in yours. — Sanober Khan
Lay down your roots now,let them wrap tight around mine,
sink deep in the soil. — Tyler Knott Gregson
There is always the question why And there is always life,
Which doesn't need an answer. — Dejan Stojanovic
A lie is still a lieeven if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
— William Blake
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
I want to tie one thousand balloons around my neckand float up
while slowly dying of happiness. — Matthew Donahoo
I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.— Jim Carroll
He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.
— George Orwell
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
She. Silent, fawn-eyed. Clever.
— Sylvia Plath
If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.
— Harry Callahan
I didn't really like confessional poetry or things. They seemed sort of dated to me, or just corny.
— Stephen Malkmus
The history of man is a must read poetry.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Limitations are possibilities ... Opportunities to perceive ourselves
Beyond our present selves ... — Ilchi Lee
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it. — Craig Johnson
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
To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem.
— Pattiann Rogers
Within my palm there is a world, a world as delicate as a bubble!
— Preeth Nambiar
