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After a night of insomnia the body gets weaker,Becomes dear but no one's - not even your own. — Marina Tsvetaeva
it's so easy to be a poetand 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
As for my feet, the little feetYou 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
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 youIn 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
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You are a poem--and that is to be the best part of a poet--what makes up thepoet's consciousness in his best moods. — George Eliot
there have been morningsso 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
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
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 colorsun'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
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[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
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
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 fightingSaturday, 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
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
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
Twinkle tiny star.Oh, how great you truly are!
God's sign from afar. — Richelle E. Goodrich
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 knowThat to my life's high altar came its priest. — Sara Teasdale
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 riposteTo the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot. — Robert Frost
A lie is still a lieeven 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 somethingwhich
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski
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
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
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
There's a lamentation in the flutter of your lash.
— Laura A. Lord
Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.
— Henry David Thoreau
