Poetry Quotes · Page 50

“I want your naked soul or nothing at all.”

— Melody Lee

“the gods seldom give but so quickly take.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Poetry is a lot harder to sell than corn.”

— Eloisa James

Superstition is part of the poetry of life.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.

— Washington Irving

We [poets] set men free from their desires.

— Rabindranath Tagore

“For you i have saved poems under my skin.”

— Sanober Khan

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

— Ezra Pound

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

— Jenny Offill

One can be a great poet and be politically stupid.

— Umberto Eco

Poetry cannot breathe in the scholar's atmosphere.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Love is as we will it to be." ~ Amunhotep El Bey”

— Amunhotep El Bey

“I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet.”

— Theodore Roethke

“The dust of my dreams swim spiced incense smoke.”

— Cameron Conaway

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

— Anonymous

High School is the place where poetry goes to die.

— Billy Collins

“How much of twentieth-century poetry, how much of my own poetry, is the cry of the damned?”

— Christian Wiman

“Too much war, hatred and fear in the world. Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.”

— Melody Lee

“It sometime takes a long time and a hard time to realize he just doesn’t deserve your you.”

— Atticus Poetry

“He was a maniac utterly devoted to loving me, and I loved him in return, unapologetically.”

— Melody Lee

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

— James Thomson

“I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.”

— Sylvia Plath

“If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.”

— John Donne

Novelists have to love humanity to write anything worthwhile. Poets have to love themselves.

— Marita Golden

The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was…

— T. S. Eliot

“Poetry is a way of coming to know the realness of things; fiction is a way of coming to know the world…

— Kelly Cherry

I'm proud to say I'm the only Slaughterhouse member who has not rewritten a verse yet, and that's the ongoing joke in…

— Joe Budden

And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it…

— Norman MacCaig

Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror…

— William Butler Yeats

Poetry relishes ripe fruit - but ripe is one thing and overripe quite another. That's something poetry doesn't like, so it couldn't…

— Kiki Dimoula

When I first got to Motown, Smokey was already a fixture there. To me, he is one of the greatest songwriters and…

— Dennis Edwards

This, in the end, might be the greatest social good of poetry: to get us to live differently, with a different sort…

— Matthew Zapruder

“Poetry is a disease vector. Like malaria.”

— Katie Douglas

I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.

— Rita Dove

Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.

— Theodor Adorno

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour

— Oscar Wilde

Poetry is what we do to break bread with the dead.

— Seamus Heaney

The poet: would rather eat a heart than a hambone.

— Theodore Roethke

“Our story is the kind that sets emotions on fire”

— J.WOLF

“Our souls fell in love long before we ever knew.”

— N.R.Hart