Poetry Quotes · Page 492

“On a folded piece of paper, in turn, each one of them would write a predetermined part of a sentence, not knowing…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

At the Third Wave Foundation, we were asking questions like, "How can we get more voters registered who support our issues?" or…

— Dawn Lundy Martin

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body…

— Jean Paul

As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don’t know if the ineffable poetry of…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? E'en in Australia art thou still more hot Rough winds do shake the darling…

— Manny Rayner

“Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous…

— Washington Irving

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love…

— Ellen Bass

Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The cells in your body are completely loyal to you; they work for you in harmony. We can even say they pray…

— Anonymous

“And you might try to hide or protect yourself, or compare the different states of love, but you must not grow up,…

— Charlotte Eriksson

What about your promise, the swear, the intention..u said tht the day my heart forgets you will be the last day of…

— Ritzy

“Tribe an organism, one flesh, breathing joy as the stars breathe destiny down on us, get going, join hands, see to business,…

— Diane di Prima

If you don’t have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language… you can’t chant well. You cannot… receive the images…

— Keali'i Reichel

“New York! I say New York, let black blood flow into your blood. Let it wash the rust from your steel joints,…

— Léopold Sédar Senghor

I didn't know how write a song, (verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, chorus, bridge, verse), etc., and I didn't know how to…

— Petra Haden

Yet there are times when a deeper need enters, when we want the poem to be not only pleasurably right but compellingly…

— Seamus Heaney

“from Hum, Hum Oh the house of denial has thick walls and very small windows and whoever lives there, little by little,…

— Mary Oliver

“I want that burn of the sky type of thing. That catching stars, and cutting clouds and sipping on sunsets type of…

— Ariana

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“And then all that has divided us will merge And then compassion will be wedded to power And then softness will come…

— Judy Chicago

It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the…

— Charles Baudelaire

“It isn't true about the lambs. They are not meek. They are curious and wild, full of the passion of spring. They…

— Alice B. Fogel

“I wish I had eyes that changed colors from blue to gray, and then after I cried, to all the colors of…

— Jarod Kintz

For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. I'm interested in art,…

— Laura Nyro

I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting…

— Art Spiegelman

For thousands of years, poetry has been picturing love as a mysterious and tragic power. But when anyone says the same thing…

— Ellen Key

“As Shelley says in his famous poem, 'To a Skylark': 'We look before and after and pine for what is not Our…

— Fr. John Ferreira

So though love grows, one shall grow with it So though love speaks, One shall listen to it So though love dies,…

— Nathan Schwake

I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or…

— Pattiann Rogers

The songs we sing invite the participation of the listener, who is central to finding a way of creating the life of…

— Peter Yarrow

Wish I was there, to kiss you Goodnight. I wish I was there, to hold you so tight. I wish I was…

— Anonymous

Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the…

— Rabindranath Tagore

In a way, that's also a recognition that Dante needs Virgil and that the Inferno needs the Aeneid and that the epic…

— Edward Hirsch

What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet.…

— Michael Ondaatje

So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade…

— Paul Lockhart

You see, the patience of an audience is very short, particularly with a non-entity. You're an intruder, and you must make them…

— Nipsey Russell

The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of…

— T. E. Hulme

When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've been thinking about it, and that poem, that guy that wrote it, he meant you're gold when you're a kid, like…

— Anonymous