Nature Quote by A.E. Housman

“The Poet Asks His Love to Write" Visceral love, living death, in vain, I wait your written word, and consider, with the flower that…

— Federico García Lorca

“ To Hear the Falling World Only if I move my arm a certain way, it comes back. Or the way the light bends…

— Jane Hirshfield

“I would lie for hours by the window gazing down upon the black lake and up at the mountains silhouetted against the wan sky,…

— Hermann Hesse

“All dies! and not alone The aspiring trees and men and grass; The poets' forms of beauty pass, And noblest deeds they are undone,…

— Herman Melville

“The words of the true poems give you more than poems, They give you to form for yourself poems, religions, politics, war, peace, behavior,…

— Walt Whitman

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“But like a forest I rise, like a plateau I open, I writhe like roads and fields. I push up trees till they meet…

— Marja-Liisa Vartio

“Sometimes I say to a poem, "I don't have the strength To wring out another drop Of the sun." And the poem will often…

— شمس الدین محمد حافظ / Khwāja Šams ud-Dīn Muhammad Hāfez-e Šīrāzī

“Bid me come, and here I am. Shape my being, and for a short time I can move mortal air in and out of…

— Jennifer Ashley

“Some poems take us places where no words reach, no thought, they take you up to the core itself, life stops for one moment…

— Jón Kalman Stefánsson

“You must be kidding." She says, "Having the power of life and death isn't enough. You must wonder what other poems are in that…

— Chuck Palahniuk