Poetry Quotes · Page 161

But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“You have spent 94 years in the hall of abstinence.”

— Gail Martin

“It was not the Jew, of course, who invented the love poem, but the other way around.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

The arts generally have had to recognize Modernism - how should poetry escape?

— John Crowe Ransom

“A few drinks and the world was hers— she wore her whiskey like a loaded gun.”

— Atticus Poetry

Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

Perhaps poetry will be the canary in the mine-shaft warning us of what's to come.

— Galway Kinnell

“And life goes on like this, an uncomplete poem.”

— Arzum Uzun

We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that slam couldn't fill. I think a lot more can be done with…

— Robbie Q. Telfer

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace…

— J. K. Rowling

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

— Karl Shapiro

“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.”

— Suzy Kassem

We are rebels for a cause, poets with a dream , and we won't let this world die without a fight.

— Albert Camus

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

— John Updike

You want to be dressed in poetry But imagery doesnt fit And you want resizing But darling dear, get a grip

— Cute Is What We Aim For

“Avraham Najeri’s fingers slid over the receiver of the Galil assault rifle with the intimate touch of a lover. He sighed. Guns…

— Stephen England

Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By…

— Wallace Stevens

“Let a man leave anger, let him forsake pride, let him overcome all bondage! No sufferings befall the man who is not…

— Gautama Buddha

“If Shakespeare be considered as a MAN born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction either…

— David Hume

During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

“Freud could never be certain, he said, in view of   his wide and early reading, whether what seemed like a new creation…

— Peter Cole

Some poems present themselves as cliffs that need to be climbed. Others are so defensive that when you approach their enclosure you…

— Stanley Kunitz

love wasn't the soft, silky words the poets spoke of. Love,with it's twin edges, was the one factor that weakened so many…

— Nora Roberts

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

— Steven Seagal

The sense of the preciousness of the body - vehicle for poetry.

— Anne Waldman

What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

— Anne Carson

Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.

— Muriel Rukeyser

I don't have an inflated opinion of how much artistic merit the poems I do have.

— Tim Key

A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“She doesn't trust easily, but when she does it's always with the devil himself.”

— Melody Lee

A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests.

— John Dryden

Only in Russia poetry is respected--it gets people killed.

— Anonymous

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

— Anonymous

“And stay, my dear stay... forever, as my quiet song, in my lilac dawn.”

— Sanober Khan

“hear not what I say like the howl, words fade away only fear remains”

— Kurt Brindley

“Whenever you keep score in love, you lose.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Above all, we ask the poet to teach us a way of seeing.

— Diane Ackerman