Poetry Quotes · Page 61

“Sweat seems to bleed / like pride from their bones.”

— Cameron Conaway

In poetry you can leave out everything but the truth.

— Deborah Keenan

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

— Anonymous

“There is a thin line between poetry and word salad.”

— Richard Carl Evans

“World without poetry is like a lover without a rose”

— Shiny

The attention one gets from being a poet isn't great.

— Nick Flynn

“In this room full of dancers, why do you still sit?”

— Hardesh

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry

— Amber Tamblyn

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

— Horace

“I didn't know till then the stars, in flakes of snow come down to fuck the earth, the lake.”

— D.M. Thomas

In the poem "C," the crows are associated with cancer, because I had suffered a cancer scare.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.”

— Matt Haig

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

— Maya Angelou

“I have a potent degree of love that is so unwise in one world that it is wisdom in another.”

— Sun Ra

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

— Joan Miro

“Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp…

— James W. Sire

“Wings can only fly as long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax…

— Munia Khan

“Sam was saying it didn’t matter, but it kind of did, too. “Save your kraut poetry for Grace,” I said, after a…

— Maggie Stiefvater

I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without…

— Dorianne Laux

Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough…

— Mary Karr

The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My…

— Bob Dylan

“Usually when your imagination is bigger then one's comprehension, this normally means you've out grown the small circle. Get with like-mined people…

— Takina Cupp

We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.

— Paolo Veronese

“She had just enough madness to make her interesting”

— Atticus Poetry

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

— Muriel Rukeyser

The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.

— Richard Rosen

“The way you respond to me. You’re poetry in motion.”

— Kitty Thomas

They say pu$$y and paper is poetry power and pistols.

— Tupac Shakur

“How do I learn to speak when silence is all I know?”

— Susie Clevenger

The poet nothing affirmeth and therefore never lieth.

— Philip Sidney

I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.

— Edmund Wilson

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

— James Broughton

“A country girl with creole roots on poetic pursuits”

— LaTesha Monique

A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Country music is the poetry of the American spirit.”

— Steve Maraboli

And they were all, when their souls grew warm, poets.

— Ray Bradbury

I never had much education in English poetry as such,

— Anne Carson

“Success is counted sweetest by those ne'er succeed.”

— Emily Dickinson