Poetry Quotes · Page 157

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world.

— Jeanette Winterson

He was a poet; and they are never exactly grown-up.

— Anonymous

“You are as curious as the sea, asking a poem of the shore.”

— Mostafa A. M. Elbehery

“My heart is small, like a love of buttons or black pepper.”

— S. Jane Sloat

In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival.

— May Sarton

“How can love's spaciousness be conveyed in the narrow confines of one syllable?”

— Diane Ackerman

“The whole journey is yours alone, to unfold & discover the unknown.”

— Bri Miller

Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind.

— Robert M. Hensel

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.

— Van Cliburn

“DETCHANT (n.) That part of a hymn (usually a few notes at the end of a verse) where the tune goes so…

— Douglas Adams

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

— Philippe Starck

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.”

— Lisa See

A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.

— Robert Morgan

As the falcon launched trustingly heavenward is lost to view, the course of the higher poetry often soars beyond the ken of…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

I find myself with a camera a lot, like taking pictures. I love writing scripts for my videos. That excites me. Anything…

— Rich Homie Quan

The major poets of New Jersey have all suffered, whether it's Whitman, who lost his job for 'Leaves of Grass,' or William…

— Amiri Baraka

There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and…

— Nancy Eimers

“On the inspiration for Never Love a Stranger: “[The book begins with] a poem from To the Unborn by Stella Benson. There…

— Harold Robbins

“Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. “Man dwells poetically on this earth,” Hölderin wrote.…

— Rob Riemen

“And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I…

— Jane Austen

Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for…

— William Congreve

“We knock upon silence for an answering music.”

— Archibald MacLeish

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

— Michael Stipe

I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption.

— Lucie Brock-Broido

“Living together/ is one move closer/ to living apart”

— Kristi Maxwell

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

— Edward Hirsch

“funny how our hearts were designed to love so fiercely. but break ever so gently.”

— Sanober Khan

“Are you sure about this? It’s a bit short.” “So? It’s poetry, not dick size.”

— J.L. Merrow

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

— Thomas Carlyle

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

— Shan Sa

Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

— Terry Eagleton

For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

— Philip James Bailey

“When I was hungry I fed almost daily on the words of her songs.”

— Jaroslav Seifert

“There was a time when I do not understand poetry.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Let them shoot us in the head, My blood will grow roots and will blossom.”

— Visar Zhiti

Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.

— Georges Braque

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

— Charles Olson