Poetry Quotes · Page 101

“No more can this Angel teach her, Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake ...”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“There will always a glimmer in those who have been through the dark.”

— Atticus Poetry

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

— Taylor Momsen

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

— Mark Strand

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

— Mattie Stepanek

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

— Yehuda Amichai

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

— Virginia Woolf

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

— Jean Cocteau

“(1)BEING A POET is like opening a car door & exposing yourself. (2)BEING A GOOD POET is like opening the door &…

— Chocolate Waters

I wanted to spend all my time writing poetry. But when I had children I couldn't do that anymore.

— Robert Bly

The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.

— Henry David Thoreau

“IT'S NOT THE HONEY WHISKEY IN A FRIDAY NIGHT - IT'S THE MANIC SHOW OF POETRY TWEETS THAT TURNS ME ON.”

— Amy King

One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.

— Stephen Dobyns

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

— Anonymous

“What have we become? We're strangers who used to be lovers... playing at being friends. And... how screwed up is that?”

— Alfa H

One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its…

— Cate Marvin

Prose-it might be speculated-is discourse; poetry ellipsis. Prose is spoken aloud; poetry overheard. The one is presumably articulate and social, a shared…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Sovegna vos. Here are the years that walk between, bearing Away the fiddles and the flutes, restoring One who moves in the…

— T.S. Eliot

With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in…

— Kwame Dawes

“Solitude of this kind makes me unaware. The roots that bind my person, makes me yearn for freedom and more. I wish…

— Pooja Subramanian

Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature! Have I not worshipped thee with such a love As never mortal man before displayed? Adored…

— Humphry Davy

“Up the still, glistening beaches, Up the creeks we will hie, Over banks of bright seaweed The ebb-tide leaves dry. We will…

— Matthew Arnold

“I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it…

— Anonymous

[The publication of his first poem] was wonderful ... but it taught me early on that the only thing that really matters…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child

— Samuel Butler

Man is made to create, from the poet to the potter.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Reading someone's poetry is like seeing them naked" -Davis Pritchett”

— John Green

“ I wax poetic On the beauty of sewers Real short poem. Done ”

— Rick Riordan

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

— Eavan Boland

“]sing to us the one with violets in her lap ]mostly ]goes astray”

— Sappho

“We inspire each other. Poets and Artists are best friends and muses for each other.”

— Avijeet Das

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

Sometimes I write from the end of the verse to the beginning of the verse.

— Rakim

“Sun shines above making diamonds of light Tink-tinkling, tap dancing, and bright.”

— Mommy Moo Moo

“May, and after a rainy spring We walk streets gallant with rhododendrons.”

— Alicia Suskin Ostriker

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

— Voltaire

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I’m writing my name Like I used to write lovers’ Over and over”

— Jessica Lucci

I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.

— Rupi Kaur

“Heaven's no place for one who thrives on hell.”

— Carrie Fisher