Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

Like fire poetry is a shadow that makes the heart want more. When you see that all you're is words, the water extinguishes the…

— Jeremy Limn

“For the violence in the dark streets, education is the best street light!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“When do they turn the streetlights on? Does each streetlight have a separate switch? Where did all the choo-choo trains go? Why don't people…

— Matthew Dicks

The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and…

— Sherman Alexie

“Night, street and streetlight, drugstore, The purposeless, half-dim, drab light. For all the use live on a quarter century – Nothing will change. There’s…

— Alexander Blok

When he moves, a streetlight stabs him, and the words flow out like blood.

— Markus Zusak

“What god are you looking for in a dark street apart from the streetlight which illuminates your way? Everything helps you to live is…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

— Oscar Wilde

Poetry is the memory of language

— Jacques Roubaud

Poetry is the dark side of the moon,

— Charles Wright

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of…

— Goldwin Smith

All poetry is misrepresentation.

— Jeremy Bentham

What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion. What I'm finding is…

— Adrienne Rich

I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early…

— Umberto Eco