Poetry Quotes · Page 417

Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that…

— Hermann Hesse

“Fuck I hate fucks Who think they’re so fucking great They know everything about fucking, When they’re just fucking fucks fucking! And…

— Initially NO

“This is what you should do: Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand…

— Anonymous

It is in vain a daring author thinks of attaining to the heights of Parnassus if he does not feel the secret…

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

“You want the secret off my succes; my recipe? I have always brought the same care to making an adventure novel, a…

— Gaston Leroux

“I will hold what I am inside, and keep my hands tight around all the things I have seen and heard, and…

— Hannah Kent

“Okay, then I’ll just say I love you. There is nothing in this world more important to me than you are. I’m…

— Colleen Houck

I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover…

— David Biespiel

“Style is not how you write. It is how you do not write like anyone else. * * * How do you…

— Charles Ghigna

“Arms are around me, hands in my hair, lips moving across my cheek, over my neck, and I’m thinking about poetry, about…

— Julie Cross

“Living is no laughing matter: You must take it seriously. So much so and to such a degree that, for example, your…

— Nazim Hikmet

Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has…

— Soren Kierkegaard

We come away from the tragedies of [William] Shakespeare with a profound sense of having encountered reality in its most pristine form…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writing has nothing to do with publishing. Nothing. People get totally confused about that. You write because you have to - you…

— Peter S. Beagle

“ The Day is Done The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Quiet Prayer: As long as the sun shall rise goes the old lovers vow. But we are children of a scientific age…

— Brian Andreas

A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of…

— Margaret Atwood

“Our confidence in the future restorative justice of God may even give us confidence to do justice ourselves in the present. We…

— N.T. Wright

“He woke her then, and trembling and obedient, she ate that burning heart out of his hand. Weeping, I saw him then…

— Anonymous

I am particularly conscious of my connection to the poets of the Harlem Renaissance because I, too, am a Black poet, born…

— Nikki Grimes

To the Young Artists of Italy! The cry of rebellion that we launch, linking our ideals with those of the Futurist poets,…

— Umberto Boccioni

I would give you the world if you would let me but you wont let me, you just expect me - to…

— Meesha B

“The first intimation of a new romance for a woman of the court was the arrival at her door of a messenger…

— Jane Hirshfield

“The tragic fear and pity may be aroused by the Spectacle; but they may also be aroused by the very structure and…

— Aristotle

“I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny they are small, and the…

— Charles Bukowski

My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or…

— Robert Bly

“The Planet On The Table Ariel was glad he had written his poems. They were of a remembered time Or of something…

— Wallace Stevens

This is the nature of love." Vashet said. "To attempt to describe it will drive a woman mad. This is what keeps…

— Patrick Rothfuss

“Terketmedi sevdan beni, Aç kaldım, susuz kaldım, Hayın, karanlıktı gece, Can garip, can suskun, Can paramparça... Ve ellerim, kelepçede, Tütünsüz uykusuz kaldım,…

— Anonymous

“And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Dim as the borrowed beams of moons and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travelers, Is Reason to the soul; and, as on…

— John Dryden

“What would it profit us, after all, even from a purely practical viewpoint, if we stripped life of all poetry, all dreams,…

— Knut Hamsun

I'm gonna I'm gonna g-g-gonna swag it out (Verse 1) Don't watch me watch the t-t-tv I'm swaggin' when you se-e-e me…

— Zendaya Coleman

I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get…

— Loretta Lynn

“My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows…

— Anne Brontë

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and…

— Thomas M. Disch

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have…

— Robert Morgan

There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating…

— A. S. Byatt

“She was married, true; but if one's husband was always sailing round Cape Horn, was it marriage? If one liked him, was…

— Virginia Woolf

“Oh, if somewhere there were a being strong and handsome, a valiant heart, passionate and sensitive at once, a poet's spirit in…

— Gustave Flaubert