Poetry Quotes · Page 137

“The was her magic, she could still see the sunset even on those darkest days.”

— Atticus Poetry

Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.

— Susan Griffin

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Must be going crazy--- my favorite poet lately has been me!”

— Wayne Kaumualii Westlake

If a poet has a dream, it is not of becoming famous, but of being believed.

— Jean Cocteau

I think I've always felt very isolated, and I'm sure lots of poets do.

— Victoria Chang

Poetry is not a waiting room where one stays overnight...every word is war.

— Rolf Dieter Brinkmann

When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out.

— Derek Walcott

The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.

— Wallace Stevens

“Any fool would not be brave Who takes no heed of this verse No heroic deed or action save Any man from…

— Richie Earl

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

— Adam Gopnik

“down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss infinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us”

— E. E. Cummings

“But, at the end of the day, if you ever think you were wrong about it all, I'm here where I have…

— Athena Violante

“Don’t I remember those rustic evenings, now buried under a thick shawl of futile memories when you and I, walked and talked…

— Abhijit Sarmah

I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but…

— Bradley Walsh

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not…

— Oscar Wilde

“It is characteristic of poetic language that it gives us not simply the denotation of a word, but a whole cluster of…

— Terry Eagleton

There won't be any poetry you can read. There won't be any beautiful songs you can play. There won't be any exotic…

— Jiyyah

What good does it make when you write love poems about someone who dosen't love you back? When I was little I…

— Asami Emogu

“The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic…

— Milan Kundera

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But,…

— Daphne Gottlieb

“I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of…

— John Taylor Gatto

There is all this stuff about how sensitive poets are and how in touch with feelings, etc. they are, but really all…

— Matthew Zapruder

“71. Rare Things -- A son-in-law who's praised by his wife's father. Likewise, a wife who's loved by her mother-in-law. A pair…

— Sei Shōnagon

“...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...”

— John Geddes

I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

“Art takes time— Monet grew his gardens before he painted them.”

— Atticus Poetry

“But tears are an indulgence. Memory sings.”

— May Sarton

“The Orphic Machine is the poem: A severed head with face turned away that sings.”

— Allen Grossman

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

— Anonymous

“Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.”

— Anonymous

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

— Paul Valery

I still believe in the need for guitars and drums and desperate poetry.

— Frank Turner

“She appears quiet and subdued. The paradox: Raging storms twirl inside her.”

— Melody Lee

“Transiting through time Like an apology In search Of its mistake.”

— Jenim Dibie

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

— Paul Valery

“trying to translate into a language that's known a poem writ in the language of stone”

— Kenneth White

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

— Honore de Balzac

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

— Jan Phillips

I have also written some poems which have not been collected in a volume.

— Grazia Deledda