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Poetry is nobody's business except the poet's, and everybody else can fuck off. — Philip Larkin

After a night of insomnia the body gets weaker,
Becomes dear but no one's - not even your own. — Marina Tsvetaeva

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life. — Marty Rubin

it's so easy to be a poet
and so hard to be
a man. — Charles Bukowski

One can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid — Charles Bukowski

The poet: just another sleepwalker dreaming he's awake. — Marty Rubin

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed

I pulled a book by Robinson Jeffers off the shelf one day. It was powerfully moving. Tears ran down my face. That's when I became a poet. — William Everson

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. — Simon Callow

She seemed to have apprehended all of the composer's coldness and none of his poetry. — Kate Chopin

As for my feet, the little feet
You used to call so pretty,
There's one, I know, in Bedford Row,
The t'other's in the City. — Thomas Hood

She's like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page. — Colleen Hoover

It's not about putting forth the questions, it's about accepting the answers we ask for. — Shane Koyczan

But when you kiss me there's a spark, and I can't remember I'm only food to be consumed like an apple and not loved like a woman. — Phar West Nagle

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

One must read poetry with one's nerves. — Wallace Stevens

Cities are built out of poet's dreams. — Marty Rubin

Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste?
Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me. — Eleanor Brown

Over the water of time I call to you
In a language I do not know. — Ellen S. Jaffe

Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. — Lidia Yuknavitch

If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way — Benny Bellamacina

Muse [10w]
Poetry's a collaboration with your muse.
Silence!
Let her speak. — Beryl Dov

You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up the
poet's consciousness in his best moods. — George Eliot

Wine is like poetry. If it's good wine. If it's not, then it's a tragedy. — Renee Carlino

there have been mornings
so quiet and tender
like a poem, on Thursday's lips
that I wondered
if I'd been kissed at all... — Sanober Khan

The stars are putting on their glittering belts,
They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash
Like a great shadow's last embellishment — Wallace Stevens

It's not what you go through that makes you strong: it is how you handle the situation that gives you strength. — Tanya R. Liverman

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

What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be's of an era long gone. — T. Grassan

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

A poet's work ... to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep. — Salman Rushdie

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world. — Seamus Heaney

I'll enjoy today while it's here, using the time wisely. Each day is a gift that soon becomes a memory. — Lina Rehal

There ain't no money in poetry, that's what keeps the poet free. I've had all the freedom I can stand. — Guy Clark

Painted desert, ocean of color
sun's worshiper, moon's lover
picture of a coyote's voice
sandbox of angels, another toy. — Trine Daely

I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave. — Edward Hirsch

In your sky, you are the brightest star.
Without you light, it's dark like tar.
So love yourself to enlighten others. — Debasish Mridha

In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear. — William Blake

I've been told by many the art of poetry's dead, I believe it's alive on pages they haven't read — Stanley Victor Paskavich

For if a woman's body can attract the holy angels, how much more the unholy man. — Michael Bassey Johnson

With one perfect kiss on one perfect English summer afternoon, we understand the meaning of all the colors of every rainbow, forevermore. — Hunter S. Jones

[Marianne Moore's definition of genuine poetry]
Imaginary gardens with real toads in them. — Marianne Moore

it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed

balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee — E. E. Cummings

There is no limitation, to where God can take you. Think of all the possibilities of what he could give you. — Colishia S. Benjamin

On faith's battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation's hot rage. — Aberjhani

Let the wet earth embrace you firmly, soundly.
She needs to be revived, she needs to beat like a heart
full of adrenaline inside a chest. — V.S. Atbay

Beaches are God's poetry. — Steve Maraboli

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

It's a
lonely
thing,
protecting
a breakable
heart — Atticus Poetry

Poetry is devil's wine. — Saint Augustine

No non-poetic account of reality can be complete. — John Myhill

I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose. — Jorge Luis Borges

Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life. — John Betjeman

Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead. — Charles Stross

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

Linear's defeated form
The intangible reality rise.' ~ Wanderer — Stella Coulson

Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the document. — Muriel Rukeyser

Friday night's alright for fighting
Saturday, Sunday, Monday too
Every night is a night of fighting
With family and friends like you — Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world. — Colson Whitehead

Prose exists to convey meaning, and no meaning such as prose conveys can be expressed as well in poetry. That's not poetry's purpose. — Basil Bunting

No man has the courage to approach her or initiate questions she herself rise, for all men fear a fascist and she can very well be a fascist's wife. — Mie Hansson

It's not easy to write a poem about a poem. — Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry, like all imaginative creations, divines the human enterprise. This is poetry's social value. — Major Jackson

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

Ocean waves gently rock the boat,
As if to the tune of a lullaby.
She sits still as the boat silently floats
Under the infinite blue sky. — Rachel Lewis

But sometimes a kiss is not a kiss is not a kiss. Sometimes it's a poetry. — Julie Buxbaum

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

Twinkle tiny star.
Oh, how great you truly are!
God's sign from afar. — Richelle E. Goodrich

The lamb misused breeds public strife
And yet forgives the butcher's knife. — William Blake

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4) — William Shakespeare

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money — Robert Graves

The poet's first job of work is to put bread on the table. — Yvor Winters

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it. — John McPhee

As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. — Kenneth Koch

Discovery's friend is creativity — Phillip Gary Smith

And when you spoke to me, I did not know
That to my life's high altar came its priest. — Sara Teasdale

I stay away from weed because it's a gateway drug. I like heroine, you're not going anywhere from there. — Atticus

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. — Milan Kundera

It's not pain. It's raw material. — Jo Bell

Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot. — Robert Frost

To make a film you have to dream a film ... that's true of poetry as well. — Frank Bidart

A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth. — Sherman Kennon

A life without poetry is a life without heart, without laughter, without crying - it's a life without feelings. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

You think it's a game?
Unintelligible? Ha!
Envision no spoons.

This is serious.
It is a matter of joy
versus emptiness. — Kristen Henderson

Poems are taught as though the poet has put a secret key in his words and it is the reader's job to find it. Poems are not mystery novels. — Natalie Goldberg

Dark is the world's night without you my love, — Pablo Neruda

I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do. — Dave Grohl

It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry," said Angus Lordie. "In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find. — Alexander McCall Smith

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life. — Eavan Boland

Would it have been worthwhile
If one settling a pillow by her head should say:
That is not what I meant at all
That is not it at all — T. S. Eliot

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom and pure mathematics — Hunter S. Thompson

OMG! I DESIGNED THIS NEW SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM! IT'S CALLED "POETRY" - YOU HAVE TO READ AMY KING'S POEMS TO GET AN INVITE ~ — Amy King

April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain. — T. S. Eliot

My love is like the red red rose
That's newly sprung in June
O my love's like the melody
That's newly played in tune — Robert Burns

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture. — Ezra Pound

There's a lamentation in the flutter of your lash. — Laura A. Lord

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere. — Henry David Thoreau

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