Poetry Quotes · Page 157

Poetry is a world seen through the eyes of the soul, writing in its being...

— Mariana Fulger

“A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.”

— David Joseph Cribbin

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I was nine when I first knew I wanted to be a writer, in particular, a poet.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

— C. K. Williams

Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.

— Joseph Brodsky

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I am the red wheelbarrow of communism. William Carlos Williams wrote a poem about me.”

— Jarod Kintz

At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life…

— Hershel Shanks

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.

— Anonymous

“Cuando vayamos al mar yo te diré mi secreto: Me envuelve, pero no es ola... Me amarga..., pero no es sal...”

— Dulce Maria Loynaz

“Seal the borders of my body to pain, seal my eyes, mouth, belly to any hunger not my own. I rename myself…

— Shailja Patel

My poems, I think, exist in a state of tension between the love of natural beauty and the fear of natural meaninglessness…

— Hayden Carruth

There's a verse in the Bible says, 'In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning…

— Tammy Faye Bakker

There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the…

— Philip Sidney

“Moments caught in time. Simple memories spread out before me. Timeless reminders of how life goes on, even when it feels as…

— Jay Long

“Lynnette and me were wondering that, if it’s alright with ya, since it’s Thursday night, ya know, ‘thirsty Thursday,’ and we’re kinda…

— Amy A. Bartol

Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The commitment to working at poetry is important because a poet is a maker, and a poem is a made thing. We…

— Edward Hirsch

“Loving humans means writing poems & songs novels & plays, slogans, chants & protest signs our critics want to stone us for…

— Alice Walker

“Percy wakes me (fourteen) Percy wakes me and I am not ready. He has slept all night under the covers. Now he’s…

— Mary Oliver

I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They're not just all fun and…

— Matthew Zapruder

“Beauty walks this world. It ages everything. I am far and I am an animal and I am just another I-am poem,…

— Peter Gizzi

“The last impression will have been good—one woman rendering homage to a poet and another mopping spilt coffee from the trousers of…

— Barbara Pym

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“for we all have our own twilights and mists and abysses to return to.”

— Sanober Khan

“I think I would asphyxiate in all your light. I need my darkness…I need my madness.”

— Melody Lee

“For only love has got that overwhelming, undeniable and irresistible power to babble.”

— Anjutha Ranganathan

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

— Manuel Puig

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

— Margaret Atwood

“Her mind is a mess, and she has no intention of cleaning today.”

— Alfa H

“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Sex and love are what make the world go round. It's the heart of poetry and music.”

— Vonnie Davis

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

— Robert Browning

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

— James Fenton

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

— Edward Hirsch

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

— Anonymous

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

— Khalil Gibran

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

— Edward Dahlberg