Poetry Quotes · Page 409

Love is poetry. To fall in love with a person is like understanding a deep, moving poem. Noticing every little detail. To…

— Shweta Basu Prasad

“Happy the bard, (if that fair name belong To him that blends no fable with his song) Whose lines uniting, by an…

— William Cowper

“There is a difference between literature and just writing in your diary. I think perhaps the difference can be measured in degrees…

— Jacob Wren

It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even…

— Mary Oliver

“There's something beautiful about the perfect hashtag. Never underestimate what can be accomplished with a few carefully chosen characters strung together behind…

— Tansy Rayner Roberts

“We sing lyrical excess, exacerbated expressionism, imponed objectivity, inventiveness, meta-baroque, extravaganza, super metaphor, sublimity, strident, exposure, super-pone, noise, super-objectivity, zillionism, fragmentation and…

— Lepota L. Cosmo

C.S. Lewis says that fiction is able to sneak past the watchful dragons of religion. It becomes more powerful to speak in…

— Jon Foreman

It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the…

— Sigmund Freud

“No matter how many romantic poems you recite, no matter how many glorious tales of love you read, how can you really…

— Sherry D. Ficklin

“Critics are much madder than poets... Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the…

— Chesterton, G.K

I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as…

— Ahdaf Soueif

“]Sardis often turning her thoughts here ] you like a goddess and in your song most of all she rejoiced. But now…

— Sappho

“He ragarded her in surprise. This was a different tune from the one he'd expected to hear, certainly a change from the…

— Leila Meacham

“I couldn’t figure out which of these ideas, if any, was at the core of the poem. But thinking about the grass…

— John Green

“Baptized in a river when I was a teenager. I go to church most Sundays. My favorite Bible verse is ‘Jesus wept.’”…

— Faith Hunter

“Interviewer: The other day, when we first talked, you said that you felt that, when you were writing, you were often following…

— Ruth Stone

All melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when once the penetrating keynote of nature and spirit is sounded-the earth-beat, sea-beat,…

— Charles Ives

“There was a poem scribbled at the top of the Ashryver family tree, as though some student had dashed it down as…

— Sarah J. Maas

“The gods have meant that I should dance, and by the gods, I will dance!!! For in some mystic hour I shall…

— Ruth St. Denis

Of all human events, perhaps, the publication of a first volume of verses is the most insignificant; but though a matter of…

— Herman Melville

Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You…

— Margaret Atwood

Shakespeare is a seminal story-teller. I don't think he imagined he was writing classics or that he was writing great poetry. I…

— Naseeruddin Shah

To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If…

— Georges Braque

Look at this poet William Carlos Williams: he is primitive and native, and his roots are in raw forest and violent places;…

— Edward Dahlberg

“The baby chattered constantly, asked for the names of plants and animals, made up nonsense poems that Larch strained to hear, for…

— Kristin Cashore

The underground went really underground. Grand Funk, and all these people man are the moderate's choice of music. Underground is Yoko Ono,…

— David Bowie

“I kept loving and loving and loving. Every waking hour, I marveled on how these moments would make made me feel. I…

— robert m drake

“You have your magic for solace, but I am not fully alive without him. All poetry flies from my mind when he…

— Deborah Harkness

“What's wrong with actors?" "They quote poetry. A girl has to be crazy to believe one," I told him. "It's far too…

— Elizabeth Chandler

“...feel the fierce way desire tourniquets itself around you and clings Clubland South of Market tweak- chic trannies powder their noses from…

— Clint Catalyst

I think a book-length poem stands about as good a chance as a collection of individual poems in reaching its field of…

— C.D. Wright

“I On the calm black water where the stars are sleeping White Ophelia floats like a great lily; Floats very slowly, lying…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Final explanation: I die, not in the least because I am unable to support these next three weeks. Oh no, I should…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I don't like crows. In the poem "C," crows are predatory, killing other birds and so forth. But in my morning walks,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Why can't fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting…

— Kenneth Grahame

Modern" poetry is, essentially, an extension of romanticism; it is what romantic poetry wishes or finds it necessary to become. It is…

— Randall Jarrell

“When they ask you where you're from, tell them your name was fleshed from the toothless mouth of a war-woman. That you…

— Ocean Vuong

It means abandoning being a poet, abandoning your careerism, abandoning even the idea of writing any poetry, really abandoning, giving up as…

— Allen Ginsberg

“There is also another mother….You walk upon her body. Her breasts grow your food. Her spirit is Nature. If you listen, you…

— Louise M. Wisechild

“[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has…

— Dorothea Singer