Poetry Quotes · Page 177

With lyrics, being a poet gave me a different approach than other people.

— Jamila Woods

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

— Chang-Rae Lee

“Tears upon the dry sponge of heart do not prove I am Promethean.”

— Adrian C. Louis

“I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn. Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.”

— Susie Clevenger

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

— James Stephens

“Faith is the poetry of our dreams; action is the builder of our reality.”

— Steve Maraboli

“The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.”

— Dante Alighieri

Now the ears of my ears are awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

— Anonymous

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

— Tinie Tempah

“While war for love is inspiring in legends and epic poems, we must be governed by cynical pragmatism.”

— James Cambias

Living here in Cambridge, you had to have an identity. It was not enough to be a wife. So I did a…

— Jane Hawking

How happy is the little Stone That rambles in the Road alone, And doesn't care about Careers And Exigencies never fears -- (...)

— Mayma

“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“I too was pinched off from a piece of clay, I too modeled by omnipotence and flanked by things too wonderful for…

— Bryana Johnson

“What is it about those unresolved endings that cause you to question every decision when you're trying to move forward?”

— Alfa H

“Our friends through cables and computer screens are as real as the light and sound waves we alter through thought.”

— Belinda Subraman

n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was…

— William Dean Howells

“I will wake you up early even though I know you like to stay through the credits. I will leave pennies in…

— Sarah Kay

I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures…

— Abbas Kiarostami

“Jonson wrote a poem and called his son His best piece of poetrie A lovely line a little loathsome I loved that…

— Edward Hirsch

“I was writing a poem, and suddenly, I fell asleep on a page. I was dreaming of you. You were talking to…

— Amany Al-Hallaq

“Good poetry, like music or a sweet touch, can doctor us up, be an antidote for an hour or longer, help us…

— Daniel Ladinsky

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out…

— William Hazlitt

“Her eyes, full of ancient, sacred wisdom. Her bones, deposits of inherited bravery. She is a proud descendant of strong, courageous women…

— Melody Lee

“Dear Gris, if there's one thing I can't abide it's a bad poet.”

— Cat Hellisen

“Poetry is born of a lack of love, born of a crazy and impossible passion...”

— Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

— Novalis

“too much explanation can take the pleasure out of any poetry. (Preface, vii)”

— Harold G. Henderson

The poet is the nearest borderer upon the orator.

— Ben Jonson

“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.”

— Alice Walker

I held her close, but she faded in the night like a poem I meant to write.

— Simon And Garfunkel

“Death is trash. Love is a robust engagement with the trash of another.”

— Joshua Bennett

“I don't make much of a living, but I do live much of a making.”

— Laurence Overmire

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

— Anonymous

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

— Rupi Kaur

“We know ourselves only insofar as we have been tested.”

— Anonymous

“A language so beautiful and lethal My mouth bleeds when I speak it.—”

— Gwendolyn MacEwen

Poetry: souls. In their whisper, the burning of infinity...

— Mariana Fulger