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I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it. — Matthea Harvey

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

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

There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable. — Dante Alighieri

I was always yours to have.
You were always mine.
We have loved each other in and out of time. — Maya Angelou

There should ne'er be a time
When a duty or dime
Doth outshine
The importance of family. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition. — Ernest Shackleton

Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse. — T. S. Eliot

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time. — Louise Bogan

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying. — Robert Herrick

The first time I saw her,
Everything in my head went quiet. — Neil Hilborn

Time - the lizard in the sunlight. It doesn't move, but its eyes are wide open. — Charles Simic

the moon is just another kind of clock — Kelli Russell Agodon

I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write. — Colin Quinn

I have these knives in my chest that can't become words. — Jenim Dibie

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. — Charles Baudelaire

But, in the end, a kiss is just a kiss; I have no time for love, or seasoned lips. — Phar West Nagle

I'm fighting my way into existence, and I will keep doing so until the end of time. — Charlotte Eriksson

Still may syllables jar with time,
Still may reason war with rhyme,
Resting never! — Ben Jonson

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

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

O deaf and mute
and blind and beautiful and interminable rose
who into time, attar and verse transmute — Cecilia Meireles

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become. — Carol Ann Duffy

Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourth
of July, I'll bow and remember you. Who
shall we follow next? Who shall we kill
next time? — William Stafford

The wind went mute and the trees in the forest stood still. It was time for the last tale. — Lawren Leo

Most of my life is in the past.
There goes some more of it.

I taught my sheep how to fight lions
so I would have more time — Chad Sweeney

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer. — Jack Spicer

The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time
music and poetry
and not the arts of space
sculpture and painting. — Salvador De Madariaga

Paradise is no whim.
It takes time and trust,
You see. — Scott Hastie

If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

Pray that the summer mornings are many when with such pleasure, with such joy you will enter ports seen for the first time — Constantinos P. Cavafis

Poetry is the plough that turns up time in such a way that the abyssal strata of time, its black earth, appear on the surface. — Osip Mandelstam

Every time I read Erin Belieu work I'm pierced in that wonderful way poetry can. — Cheryl Strayed

Without space, there is no time. — Dejan Stojanovic

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are bones
waiting for names in the graveyards.
Even the sun above us is dying, one
landed repetition of light at a time. — Cecilia Llompart

I shall have my lasso, I shall lead the course;
I recognize it's time to mount a different horse. — Mie Hansson

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. — Henry Miller

Books measure time in both moments and years.
We all grow old but the stories never will. — R.M. Engelhardt

But he never forgot how once by not knowing time,
He escaped into the clockless land of ever,
Where time hides tick-less waiting to be born. — U.A. Fanthorpe

Our torments also may in length of time
Become our Elements. — John Milton

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. — Sherman Alexie

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

Whenever a time arises where clarity is desired, it is always wise to reflect on the sage within. — Sereda Aleta Dailey

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

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity. — George Oppen

God is busy and has no time for you. — Dejan Stojanovic

O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away — John Clare

Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time. — Diane Glancy

I imagined I was God for a millisecond
And became speechless for a long time. — Dejan Stojanovic

I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the hard work of writing fiction. — Yuriy Tarnawsky

We should've
thrown fucking riots
the first time they
had us ring up
and bag our own
groceries — Phil Volatile

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

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

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone. — Claudio Magris

Christ, what a sad collection of losers, mm?'

'Too much time on their hands, mate. Leads to poetry. — Garth Ennis

Time
goes
too
fast.
Come
home. — Miller Williams

Time passes too fast.
Like a hummingbird flying by,
it's just a blur to my eyes. — Amanda Leigh

Time has nothing to do with the matter. — Moliere

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream. — John Ashbery

the time will come, my dear
when I will hold you close

and all will be
right again
in the world. — Sanober Khan

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine. — Alice McDermott

Time slips by; our sorrows do not turn into poems,
And what is invisible stays that way. — Mark Strand

While the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space,
the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time. — Vladimir Nabokov

One way poetry connects is across time ... Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem. — Jane Hirshfield

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. — William Butler Yeats

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. — David McCullough

Times change, as do our wills, What we are - is ever changing; All the world is made of change, And forever attaining new qualities. — Luis Vaz De Camoes

What is this life so full of care,
We don't have time to stand and stare. — W.H. Davies

Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. — Dave Beard

I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions. — Chrisette Michele

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

In this universe there are no time machines or keys that can turn hearts back around. — Sarah Tregay

It is futile to spend time telling stories about the fleetness of each day. — Dejan Stojanovic

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write. — Shane McCrae

Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time. — Heinrich Heine

Moments caught in time. Simple memories spread out before me. Timeless reminders of how life goes on, even when it feels as if you cannot. — Jay Long

Rush of pine scent (once upon a time),
the unlicensed conviction
there ought to be another way
of saying
this. — Paul Celan

I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a little taller
Than when I went. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. — Virginia Woolf

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. — Vita Sackville-West

We hold firm our phones,
In case we capture that shot,
Of a jumbo jet falling,
Or that child time forgot. — P.J. Bayliss

Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my free time. — Martin Amis

I spend most of my time reading non-fiction of all sorts. Then poetry. Then fiction to blurb. Then fiction I want to read. — Jim Shepard

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
The holy time is quiet as a Nun Breathless with adoration. — William Wordsworth

Your grandma was a slave once upon a time make her feel free — Martellis Thurmand

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. — Adrian Mitchell

Art takes time -
Monet grew his gardens
before he painted them. — Atticus Poetry

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

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

I blink January's lashes
and gush down December's cheeks — Sanober Khan

It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso — Patsy Asuncion

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out. — Andrea Gibson

Time gives poetry to a battlefield... — Graham Greene

They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is? — Jason E. Hodges

DESPITE THE INVENTION OF TIME MACHINES, WE KEEP BEING LINEAR. — Amy King

Today is such a lovely day,
my heart is dancing with joy.
My mind is flowing with time
and my soul is longing for your soul. — Debasish Mridha

We cannot always cry at the right time
and who is to say which time is right? — Madeleine L'Engle

Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive. — Mary Stewart

When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry. — Eve Merriam