Poetry Quotes · Page 64

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

— Coco Chanel

Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

— Taylor Momsen

The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved.

— Faiz Ahmad Faiz

“All of the reasons we decided to part, elude me now.”

— Alfa H

“Oh, I know that I'll never be perfect I'm just alive”

— Maddy Kobar

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

— Virginia Woolf

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

— Edmund Waller

Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.

— Robert Hass

Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

— Orson F. Whitney

A moment for the poet's play. Until there's nothing left to say. I wish for this night-time...

— Nightwish

“What if the poem loses? What if it never tastes victory like the intent it was written with?”

— Akif Kichloo

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”

— Stephen King

A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.

— Karen Armstrong

Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.

— Raymond Carver

“... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric – people who are too dead…

— Norman Friedman

I really like Pat Parker. I really like Audre Lorde. I read a lot of the Beats when I was younger, so…

— Arlo Parks

“Right now if you went online and to look up every bible verse with the word “control” in it, you would discover…

— Stephen D. Morrison

I work hard to make the poems as good as they can be, and if they're not good enough I scrap them.…

— Michael Longley

I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit…

— Anonymous

“I screamed at myself in the subway for writing poems about you still. I made a scene. I think about you almost…

— Jon Sands

Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and…

— Benjamin Jowett

For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is…

— William H. Gass

“What you are trying to let go of ...is already gone.”

— Sanober Khan

I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.

— Carol Ann Duffy

“Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains. In my soul.”

— John Green

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Accuracy is sacrificed in the name of better poetry.”

— N.K. Jemisin

We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart”

— Kristi Maxwell

“ 'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.”

— Angus Wilson

People can put their best poems straight onto the web.

— Roger McGough

“Poets are interested primarily in death and commas. ”

— Carolyn Kizer

If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Come, get entwined in the dream catcher of my heart.”

— Melody Lee

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I thought poems were songs for people with bad voices.

— Lorna Dee Cervantes

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

— Marianne Moore

It's absolutely crucial to maintain my life as a poet.

— Edward Hirsch