Poetry Quotes · Page 115

“Put a girl in moonlight and tell only truths and every man becomes a poet.”

— Atticus Poetry

“A country girl with creole roots on poetic pursuits”

— LaTesha Monique

“where do i find self love?' you dig dig until you find the gold”

— Jenai Charles

Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between.

— Carl Sandburg

A poem is a form of refrigeration that stops language going bad.

— Peter Porter

“The ink of a pen is simply the blood of a heart”

— Michael Biondi

Anyone who holds a pen these days thinks he or she is a poet.

— Ilaiyaraaja

When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its…

— Ada Leverson

I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.

— Sue Monk Kidd

I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was…

— Lesley Ann Warren

There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff.

— James May

The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of…

— Joyce Kilmer

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that,…

— Erich Fromm

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

— Edward Hirsch

Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

— Ernest Hemingway

Anyway I read more contemporary poetry than contemporary fiction so my mind goes first to a kind of crass "conceptualism" that repeats…

— Ben Lerner

Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed,…

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and…

— John Lennon

“ I wish I were a poet. I've never confessed that to anyone, and I'm confessing it to you, because you've given…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Entertaining Possibilities "Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - The Queen of Hearts, Alice in Wonderland…

— Nancy Boutilier

Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass…

— Ovid

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

— William Shenstone

He who improvises can never make a perfect line of poetry.

— Titian

The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet.

— Imogen Cunningham

“I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“If you can weep with your words, the meaning of your heart can be written forever”

— Munia Khan

A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping.

— Marianne Boruch

“I was born to make mistakes, not to be perfect.”

— Ross Lynch

By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.

— Brian Ferneyhough

To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.

— George Herbert

The immature poet imitates, the mature poet plagiarizes,

— T. S. Eliot

“I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied.”

— Robert Wells

Poverty, Poetry, and new Titles of Honor, make Men ridiculous

— Benjamin Franklin

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

— John Dryden

“LOVE COULD BE LABLED POISON AND WE’D DRINK IT ANYWAYS.”

— Atticus Poetry

Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.

— Georges Seurat