“I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.” — Marc Norman Copy Share Image
Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little. — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it. — James Wright Copy Share Image
The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last. — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life. — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves… — William Osler Copy Share Image
The poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept… — David N. Elkins Copy Share Image
Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable. — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality.… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
My 'must-have' was poetry. From the first, life meant that to me. And, fortunately, poetry is not purchasable material, but an atmosphere… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not… — Marc Norman Copy Share Image
“...Nature becomes your teacher, and from her you will learn what is beautiful and who you are and what is your special… — Stephen Graham Copy Share Image
Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet.… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
The world is yours, express yourself in poetry, life is beautiful, let it flow between your veins. — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry. — John Hollander Copy Share Image
“A life without poetry is a life without heart, without laughter, without crying - it's a life without feelings.” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
