Poetry Quotes · Page 154

“In China we believe "rob the rich to feed the poor." But robbers here have no poetry.”

— Xiaolu Guo

A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.

— Rufus Wilmot Griswold

one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid

— Charles Bukowski

With the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

— Anonymous

The poet lights the light and fades away. But the light goes on and on.

— Emily Dickinson

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

— James Broughton

To be a poet did not occur to me. It was indeed a threshold guarded by demons.

— Harold Bloom

I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore.

— Tukaram

I didn't know until later, but my uncle was quite a famous bohemian in Glasgow, and he played guitar. My father was…

— Donovan

They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's.

— A. E. Housman

I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as…

— Anonymous

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are…

— Aaron Belz

“When air becomes breath, and cells become sentient, Words become poetry, and facts become science.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

— Robinson Jeffers

You cannot find one single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against non-believers. Jesus said to love your enemies.…

— Robert Jeffress

The poetry that comes from the squaring off between and the circling is worth it, finding beauty in the dissonance.

— Tool

Think about what artists, novelists and poets have in common: the ability to engage in metaphorical thinking, linking seemingly unrelated ideas, such…

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“I used to think love was two people sucking on the same straw to see whose thirst was stronger, but then I…

— Jeffrey McDaniel

“This night shalt thou know the favour of the Gods, and behold on Parnassus those dreams which the Gods have through ages…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“My heart gave me no respite, I was like a madman last night. All night I was beguiled, Indulged and fantasized. The…

— Amir Khusrow Dehlavi

Woke Up Today' is a number of different sections compounded together. There's the melodica solo section which is three divisions; there's the…

— Jacob Collier

“They understood, as few have understood before or since, how fleeting life is and how pointless to try to hold on to…

— Thomas Cahill

“Whispering wind, a quiet breath exhaled across years of tiny, fragments of light. Glowing in the breeze, like silent fireworks, accentuating my…

— Susan L. Marshall

If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would…

— Richard Meltzer

“Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow

“Each and every words count. Each and every thoughts count.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“Words will scratch more hearts than swords.”

— Atticus Poetry

“Days like today, I'm thankful for rain. My smeared mascara is... justified.”

— Alfa H

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet.

— Ogden Nash

“We are all born free and spend a lifetime becoming slaves to our own false truths.”

— Atticus Poetry

Poetry is often generations in advance of the thought of its time.

— Louise Bogan

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

— Oscar Wilde

“I see your picture and in that picture I didn't see you.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“To dance is to create poetry with your feet.”

— Avijeet Das

A poet's hope: to be, like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere.

— Anonymous

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

— Anne Waldman

Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.

— Bo Burnham

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.

— Martin Carter

Babies are not brought by storks and poets are not produced by workshops.

— James Fenton

“He could write an epic poem about her ass. And all the ways he wanted to defile it.”

— R.G. Alexander