Poetry Quotes · Page 159

Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.

— Pablo Neruda

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

— Aleister Crowley

“The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.”

— Vitruvius Pollio

“slow it is a slow business to grow a few words to say love”

— Anselm Hollo

And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

— Pablo Neruda

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

— Aja Monet

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

— Ray Bradbury

My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

— Tao Lin

As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which…

— Mary Oliver

“It's not what you go through that makes you strong: it is how you handle the situation that gives you strength.”

— Tanya R. Liverman

I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as…

— Eavan Boland

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from…

— Paul Lafargue

“Unjustified ambition kills value, Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air. If there is nothing else, it…

— Dejan Stojanovic

When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply…

— Anonymous

“we discover through relationships that sometimes the person we fall for cannot comprehend the love we provide”

— R.H. Sin

“Life is empty. Life is meaningless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value. Wetboys are killers. That's all…

— Brent weeks

“Consciously or unconsciously, I may have done many things that were un-true, but I have never uttered anything false in my poetry…

— Rabindranath Tagore

We were romantics. We didn't just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues like honey. Spirits soared. Women swooned, and…

— Robin Williams

I didn't ever consider poetry the province exclusively of English and American literature and I discovered a great amount in reading Polish…

— Edward Hirsch

“The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame [...] The moth takes off again, and we…

— Mohsin Hamid

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious…

— Allen Tate

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet…

— T. S. Eliot

“No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm; But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm. "How often already you've had…

— Robert Frost

“Don’t ever uncast the spell you have on me.”

— Melody Lee

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

— Earle Birney

The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker.

— Pablo Neruda

God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.

— Peter Altenberg

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.

— Charles Bukowski

The belief in poetry is a magnificent fury, or it is nothing.

— Wallace Stevens

“How like a winter has been my hard spring away from you, my harp. --Psalm”

— David Lehman

Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.

— May Sarton

I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.

— Amber Tamblyn

“A badly written novel can always be shortened to a poem.”

— Gloria D. Gonsalves

I always knew that was what I wanted to do - to write, particularly poetry.

— Derek Walcott

“Why do we write? A chorus erupts. Because we cannot simply live.”

— Patti Smith

“I negate this distance with / what it would be / to be shining you.”

— Mikl Paul

“I wear the words we didn't say. My heart is clothed in them every day.”

— Alfa H

Today's verse is from Lamentations The Lord's steadfast love never ceases!

— Anonymous

“Her love was like endless summer nights -unforgettable.”

— J.WOLF