Poetry Quotes · Page 57

“Only Fact is Me (Sonnet 2655) I'm the impulse before the language, I'm the reason before the science, I'm the pulse before…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Palavras!...Ambulância imagística”

— Anonymous

The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation.... The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems.…

— Molly Peacock

Time sped. And the poet through sorrow Became like his suffering kind. Again he toiled over his poems To lighten the grief…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go…

— G.K. Chesterton

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

— Abbas Kiarostami

“She was another broken doll dreaming of a boy with glue. ”

— Atticus Poetry

A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forestrots below,such a town is fitted to raise not only corn…

— Henry David Thoreau

Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.

— Octavio Paz

“I've got this." Apollo stepped forward. His fiery armor was so bright it was hard to look at, and his matching Ray-Bans…

— Rick Riordan

“Oh, come to me in dreams, my love! I will not ask a dearer bliss; Come with the starry beams, my love,…

— Mary Shelley

What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish…

— Jonathan Swift

Reading poetry gives me a sense of calm, well-being, and love for humanity - the same stuff more flexible women get from…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly…

— Nick Cave

“…Beloved, Today I have sought you throughout my city and your strange city, where the buildings do not rejoice to the sun,…

— Eunice Odio

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why…

— Oscar Wilde

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the…

— Ben Lerner

To transform a grimace into a sound sounds impossible, yet it is possible to transform a vision into music, to go outside…

— Dejan Stojanovic

The verse love others as you love yourself is not talking about liking yourself romantically or as a friend. It is talking…

— June Hunt

I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic…

— Werner Herzog

“My vengeance is my guilt”

— Ovid

“For the Wife Beater's Wife With blue irises her face is blossomed. Blue Circling to yellow, circling to brown on her cheeks.…

— Bruce Weigl

“What would you have me do? Seek for the patronage of some great man, And like a creeping vine on a tall…

— Edmond Rostand

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Thee, my serenity, one can not bear, Seeing thee befuddled, bereaved, Dimmed like the midnight, secluded, darkened, Thee, my serenity, A window…

— Hamidreza Bagheri

Poem Titled {I Know the feeling} ~When life not going good and it seems all you doing is suffering and crying.... ~It…

— Malcolm Cleveland

“Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps…

— William Ellery Channing

“was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He…

— William Shakespeare

One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age.…

— May Sarton

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry…

— Seamus Heaney

“LIFE IS NEVER OVER.”

— Amy King

I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly,…

— Sam Hamill

“And I am weary of the anguish Increasing winters bear; Weary to watch the spirit languish Through years of dead despair. So,…

— Emily Brontë

Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and…

— Mary Ruefle

I feel my poetry has contributed through all these languages that I needed to learn leading up to English.

— Masiela Lusha

The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin' to have a solo.

— David Edwards

“Poetry is the spiritual essence of life; and therefore not a low-calorie diet for the brain.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann