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As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry. — Henry Purcell

I eat words for breakfast, almost savagely. Webster and Dictionary are mad at me. — Delano Johnson

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured. — Alberto Manguel

Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words. — Robert Frost

all my life
i have looked for poems

to elope with. — Sanober Khan

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving — Jane Hirshfield

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice. — Virginia Woolf

A single poem
is worth a hundred
cozy winter nights
kind words
and healed wounds. — Sanober Khan

A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words. — Debasish Mridha

Let your poetry be the light and see the true beauty of your words bloom into life, love, and inspiration. — Delano Johnson

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent — Victor Hugo

Poetry is an art that uses words to paint vivid pictures of perceptions and emotions. — Debasish Mridha

Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult — Rayvon L. Browne

Words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ... — John Geddes

I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords. — Andrew Bird

His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

I hold you in my mouth, in the words that contain you, in the unsaid and the haunts, in all the forms your name. — Gwen Calvo

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still. — Arthur Rimbaud

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words. — Anatole Broyard

Each and every words count.
Each and every thoughts count. — Santosh Kalwar

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower. — Osbert Sitwell

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it. — Callan McAuliffe

I do not write poetry; I take words and dip them in feelings. — Arti Honrao

We hold on to poetry because it lights a fire in our soul and keeps our bodies warm. — Sanober Khan

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry. — Jorge Luis Borges

Be still my hand and let the words write themselves upon my heart. Be still my heart and let your pages be filled in silence. — Cristen Rodgers

I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up and soar! — Margarita Engle

How strange and ironic it is-
all the words i long to say
are lost in words. — Sanober Khan

for we all have
our own

twilights
and mists
and abysses

to return to. — Sanober Khan

Sometimes poetry
words
give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough. — Patricia MacLachlan

Come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words ... — John Geddes

Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Writing Poetry: Take everyday words beyond everyday talent and write them alive. — C.J. Heck

Boris Pasternak said that poetry makes itself from the relationship between the sounds and the meanings of words. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. — Robert Frost

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it
— Franz Wright

When the words have been said and the music has been played, feelings
are the only form of art which will remain to reign. — Soar

I did not foresee my words becoming such a reverie of mimic and refrain. — Joshua Kryah

He wanted to be a poet,' someone else put in while Maggie hugged Tim and patted his back. 'Said he'd only lacked the words to be one. — Nora Roberts

Compliments land as
soft and gentle on my ears
as a butterfly. — Richelle E. Goodrich

For even the best err in words when they are meant to mean most delicate and almost inexpressible things. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Cheapen words and they'll cheapen you — Benny Bellamacina

Loving you is kissing the night, exposing the scars, words in flames, for every drop and for every life. — Gwen Calvo

And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air. — Jenim Dibie

I am the poet with scaring words and blurred letters. I do not know if my poetry is a blessing or a curse. — Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to say how it is. — Jeanette Winterson

The words 'I Love You' kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second. — Aberjhani

They go to Paris to learn how to make bombs and they come back having learned only how to write poetry, which they think is more explosive. — Rana Dasgupta

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world. — Dejan Stojanovic

A word only writes
Its night and rides
Its dream. — Dejan Stojanovic

My head is full of fire
and grief and my tongue
runs wild, pierced
with shards of glass. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. — Thomas Gray

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. — Wallace Stevens

Poetry is thoughts that breath and words that burn. — Thomas Grey

Poetry is painting with words where you create a masterpiece by spilling your feelings and emotions onto the blank paper. — Avijeet Das

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant. — Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Being there doesn't mean I'm present. I exist only in words. I want to be transmuted fully to white page and ink. — David Joseph Cribbin

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

There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said. — Alan W. Watts

A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms. — Paul Valery

kisses... are
and always will be

the only language

that I will have
ever truly known. — Sanober Khan

You read my words and instantly we are both connected — Richard L. Ratliff

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words. — Eddie Izzard

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page. — Taylor Swift

And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong. — Amber Tamblyn

I am lover of words ... I am wickedly drunk with the magic of words ... the poetic nature whispers through and to my very heart and soul. — Jennifer Hillman

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you. — Bob Dylan

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire

... and the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you. — Nazim Hikmet

Get rid of words, and get rid of meaning, and still there is poetry. — Yang Wanli

I sent my words out onto the wind
to paths unseen and parts unknown
in hopes people will enjoy
this book of poetic words I've sown — Charles Johnson

A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings. — Dejan Stojanovic

Art is a reflection of poetry and beauty of the heart and mind without the use of any words. — Debasish Mridha

Words ... To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order. — Seamus Heaney

I feel your words on my lips
and feel your mood in my hips — Maquita Donyel Irvin

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis. — Amiri Baraka

she prays to feel as powerful
as she might if God sang silent
words into her ear and answered
all the rattling questions
now — Beth Morey

I love the way he says my name. With the elegance and utmost respect of a King, just before he bows to his Queen. — M.J. Abraham

My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness. — George W. Romney

Some music has words, and rock had words that at times aspired to poetry, but the words were always sounds first, spoken to the body before the mind. — Rebecca Solnit

words
like mysterious mermaids
come and live permanently
in the soft sweeps
and scars of my skin. — Sanober Khan

Yet, the most wonderful in my heart remains unsaid and it will remain so forever! — Preeth Nambiar

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

When you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ... — John Geddes

Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity.
Go beyond your tangled thoughts and
find the splendor of paradise. — Rumi

In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing. — R.M. Engelhardt

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic. — Dejan Stojanovic

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. — Karen Armstrong

be good to yourself
you're the only you
you'll ever get — R H Sin

Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry. — Yang Wanli

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths. — Dejan Stojanovic

I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect for words, the power of words. — Kurt Cobain

When you find yourself writing, reading, or listening the delivery of words when spoken? You know the melody of wordplay. "& I love Wordplay — Elijah Cainaan

Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm. — N'Zuri Za Austin

We inhale life and exhale words. that's just what writers' do
— Terry A. O'Neal

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. — Samuel Prout

I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a
single word: Home. — Mahmoud Darwish

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Everyone's life is a poetry rhymed with sweet and bitter words, rhythmed with moments. — Robert Ahaness