Poetry Quotes · Page 39

“A life without a miracle is not a life.”

— Christina Strigas

The universe is God's son.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

— Oscar Wilde

“love is fear but fear is death”

— Kruz Lex

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

— Isaac Newton

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

— William Hazlitt

I often say poetry was my first love.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“I just need you and some sunsets. ”

— Atticus Poetry

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

— Wallace Stevens

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

— Derek Walcott

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

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

— May Sarton

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

— Mikl Paul

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

— Patti Smith

Poetry has roots, but they are sometimes cut off and still poetry is written.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the…

— Walter Pater

“She lends her pen, to thoughts of him, that flow from it, in her solitary. For she is his poet, And he…

— Lang Leav

We want poems that kill assassin poems, poems that shoot guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys. And take their weapon, leaving…

— Anonymous

“Allow this poem to carry you beyond yourself, transcending your mortal flesh as you wed yourself with the potentially infinite.”

— Peter Davis

I need you like the roses need the rain. Like the poet needs the pain. I just can't live without you. My…

— Anonymous

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts.

— Aristotle

I was kind of influenced by, for example, the meaning of words in songs, that's kind of my poetry that gives me…

— Steve Wozniak

My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me to a…

— John Keats

Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we…

— Adrienne Rich

I felt it's vague enough for the reader to pull their own story and their wisdom out of the poem, but for…

— Masiela Lusha

“Eight o'clock, no later, You light the lamps, The big one by the large window, The small one on your desk, They…

— Mary Oliver Rotman

I feel the most natural thing is for music to come that way because it's sort of like poetry. Though I do…

— Stephen Malkmus

“Within Young Leaves Wrapped within young leaves: the sound of water. —SOSEKI This delicate observation by this Japanese poet is filled with…

— Mark Nepo

“I want to marry a man who has read the entire collected works of Shakespeare," Daisy said. "Someone quiet and romantic- better…

— Lisa Kleypas

“The poet was, of course, always present to assist the debater. Though the logic of Lewis's Christian apologetics may be fallible, the…

— Humphrey Carpenter

A poem is a naked person.

— Bob Dylan

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

— John Keats

“The inebriation of verse is eternal.”

— Chandrashekar

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

— Clarence Darrow

Don't send a poet to London.

— Heinrich Heine

A poet over 30 is pathetic

— H. L. Mencken

“POETRY HAS A PEPTIC PRESENCE. PRESENTLY.”

— Amy King

“My heart still speaks of our fire.”

— N.R.Hart