Poetry Quotes · Page 151

Poetry: souls. In their whisper, the burning of infinity...

— Mariana Fulger

“A language so beautiful and lethal My mouth bleeds when I speak it.—”

— Gwendolyn MacEwen

“We know ourselves only insofar as we have been tested.”

— Anonymous

Poetry and art are key influences in changing how we look at taboos.

— Rupi Kaur

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

— Anonymous

“I don't make much of a living, but I do live much of a making.”

— Laurence Overmire

“Death is trash. Love is a robust engagement with the trash of another.”

— Joshua Bennett

“Love and Death? What has great music or poetry ever been about, but those twin forces that undo a man?”

— Anonymous

Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery.

— Lorine Niedecker

“I wanted his hands at my back and his lips speaking poems on mine and our journey to each other to be…

— Allie Condie

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer…

— Adam Kirsch

“Whenever a time arises where clarity is desired, it is always wise to reflect on the sage within.”

— Sereda Aleta Dailey

“If I began to draw myself away from you we’d still be like two mixed colors of paint impossible to separate.”

— Sanober Khan

I have spoken to many broadcasters about bringing poetry to television and they're usually not keen.

— Frank Skinner

I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different…

— Tony Kushner

“I wasn’t reading poetry because my aim was to work my way through English Literature in Prose A–Z. But this was different.…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Besides intercourse (when the Image-repertoire goes to the devil), there is that other embrace, which is a motionless cradling: we are enchanted,…

— Roland Barthes

For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts…

— Robert Southey

If Painting be Poetry's sister, she can only be a sister Anne, who will see nothing but a flock of sheep, while…

— Augustus William Hare

For an American, there's no automatic place where people love the art of poetry. There's not a social class that considers poetry…

— Robert Pinsky

I love the working class, and everyone from it that I've met, and think they're incredible witty, inventive - there's a lot…

— Martin Amis

“For what was civilization but the intellect’s ascendancy out of the doldrums of necessity (shelter, sustenance and survival) into the ether of…

— Amor Towles

It represents a Bible verse I wear on my shoe. Philippians 4:13. It says 'I can do all things through Christ who…

— Stephen Curry

I held her close, but she faded in the night like a poem I meant to write.

— Simon And Garfunkel

“She saw poetry where other writers merely saw failure to cope with English.”

— Alice Walker

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

— Pablo Neruda

“Experience taught me that when pride wins... we all lose.”

— Alfa H

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

— Plato

Lovers, Lunatics and poets are made of same stuff.

— Bhagat Singh

“No moon in sight, so I howled at the exit sign instead.”

— Franny Choi

Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.

— Hafez

Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs;

— William Shakespeare

Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.

— Mason Cooley

“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.”

— robert m drake

“I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more.”

— Richard Lovelace

Yes, I love poetry, both to read and to write it. A first love.

— Peter Heller

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I sit in my tree I sing like the birds My beak is my pen My songs are my poems.

— David Almond

“no need to seek your other half. you are already whole”

— Jenai Charles