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Short Poetry Quotes & Sayings

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To them, eternal life begins
And God Himself shall wipe away all tears. — Timothy Salter

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters — Julio Cortazar

Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry. — Evangeline Lilly

I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark. — Erica Jong

Think long thoughts in short sentences. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it. — Jeremy Bentham

O Weep No More For
Me When I Am Gone! — Timothy Salter

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long. — Russell Smith

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar. — Steve Earle

Iambics march from short to long;
With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There is no poetry or song.
There is no short or long.
There is only you. — Debasish Mridha

A good story is like a well-placed punch: quick, effective, and impossible to ignore. — R.L. Raymond

She was mined for the children
in her, one daughter, then another,
a short seam, quick to clay,
and not a single son to save them. — Robert Wrigley

For once,
engulf,
not air,
but hope.
For once,
breathe on,
a firm belief! — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

Whose starboard eye
Saw chariot 'swing low'? — James Weldon Johnson

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk. — Marina Tsvetaeva

Impatience kills quickly. — Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Enjoy The
Sound Of Silence. — Timothy Salter

Mountains clothed in snow
Robed in white against blue skies
Mirrored in the lake. — Timothy Salter

If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee? — Ryan Goodrich

Free from ivory-tower
the pencil twirls
across the footpath — Santosh Kalwar

Chase your stars fool, life is short. — Atticus Poetry

Truth is like poetry.
And most people fucking hate poetry. — Adam McKay

How frail the bloom, how short the stay
That terminates us all!
Today we flourish green and gay,
Like leaves tomorrow fall. — John Clare

Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won't. — Dorianne Laux

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry. — Alice Fulton

I frowned. "Are you sure about this? It's a bit short." "So? It's poetry, not dick size. — J.L. Merrow

Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in weak short stories or novels. — Ben Lerner

Poetry forces a writer to condense and crystallise his thoughts and often represents a short cut to truths unsuspected by the author himself. — Felix Dennis

Sure, we thought the acres
That we tilled were sacred,
But how could we have known
That wheat can haunt like ghosts — Sherman Alexie

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time. — Mary Karr