Poetry Quotes · Page 140

...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.

— Samuel Johnson

Gender is the poetry each of us makes out of the language we are taught.

— Leslie Feinberg

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.

— Erica Jong

“He sighed. “But I’ve never been crazy about those ‘wait on God’ verses.”

— Kim Cash Tate

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

— Mark Strand

“The whispers inside the red wheelbarrow's dew.”

— Cameron Conaway

“Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.”

— The Prolific Penman

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

— John Keats

“Only one is a wanderer. And when she was sad, she'd go into the streets to be with people.”

— Ralph Angel

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

— Michael Longley

I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems.…

— Ai Weiwei

“Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change”

— Benny Bellamacina

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me…

— Mike Young

You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.'

— Michael Pena

“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us - the poet - whispers…

— Audre Lorde

I don't consider myself just a rapper or just a singer. I'm a music producer, lyricist. I'm a poet as well, and…

— Yo Yo Honey Singh

“He loved three things in this life: Vespers, white peacocks, And old maps of America, Didn't love children crying, Raspberries with tea,…

— Anna Akhmatova

“On 9 Jan 2024 at 16:30 Wajid Shaikh wrote this poem on the same maze Where they had met- Milenge tujhse hum…

— Wajid Shaikh

“Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at…

— John Green

“She told her journal about me passing by her in the parking lot, about how on that night I had touched her-literally,…

— Alice Sebold

I know that in some ways I operate from a kind of antiquated interest in imagery, while many contemporary poets are not…

— Martha Ronk

“ Words Be careful of words, even the miraculous ones. For the miraculous we do our best, sometimes they swarm like insects…

— Anne Sexton

“The twenty-four-hour diner, the station waiting room and the motel are sanctuaries for those who have, for noble reasons, failed to find…

— Alain de Botton

“And even if she were, even if we had our answer, whatever it was, what would we do with it? How would…

— Amy Boesky

Une danse est un poe' me. A dance is a poem.

— Denis Diderot

“Things are more like they are now...than they have EVER been before!”

— Uncle Arnie Mamath

“My life has been the poem I could have writ But I could not both live and utter it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“I may look like a beer salesman, but I'm a poet.”

— Theodore Roethke

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

— David Hare

Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country.”

— Robert Frost

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.

— Jean Cocteau

“For Rhime the Rudder is of Verses, With which like Ships they steer their courses.”

— Samuel Butler

“I rise up above myself / like a fish flying...”

— Lucille Clifton

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

— Orson Welles

“If you love peanut butter pie, you are either Dolly Parton or someone who loves her.”

— Kate Lebo

For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing.

— Robin Morgan

“i am sacrificial but i am also strong i know better than to love you to death”

— Nkateko Masinga

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge.

— Aime Cesaire

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

— Walter Savage Landor