Poetry Quotes · Page 16

She started smoking poetry.

— Lynn

“Poets make the best topographers.”

— W.G. Hoskins

“I was clever in a severely limited sense”

— Mark Bibbins

“Envy won't make you a better poet.”

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“Let's see you find the world now.”

— Vasko Popa

“Poetry is a lot harder to sell than corn.”

— Eloisa James

Only poetry inspires poetry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love without passion lacks only poetry

— Juju

“She has wings the color of wild and a soul the color of art.”

— Melody Lee

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

— Thomas Carlyle

Poetry is music written for the human voice.

— Maya Angelou

I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry.

— John Cooper Clarke

“Violently quiet and free Everything around me.”

— Bri Miller

“You and I will be lost and found a thousand times along this cobbled road of us.”

— Atticus Poetry

Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The hardest step we all must take is blindly trust in who we are.”

— Atticus Poetry

“the world is better without them. only the plants and the animals are true comrades. I drink to them and with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

“In Austin, someone has scrawled on the bathroom wall of a cafe on Congress Street, “I don’t know if you or I…

— Linh Dinh

It is difficult to get the news from poetry, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

— William Carlos Williams

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not…

— Mark Twain

Weaknesses have a certain function in a poem... some strategy in order to pave the reader's way to the impact of this…

— Joseph Brodsky

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

— Max Jacob

“I will kiss you here. And here. And here. And here. You express me better than I express myself. You shall be…

— J.A. Huss

For me, a painting must give off sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem.

— Joan Miro

What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when…

— Soren Kierkegaard

Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and…

— Jay Michaelson

There is a great deal of emotional satisfaction in the elegant demonstration, in the elegant ordering of facts into theories, and in…

— Robert Watson-Watt

“indeed there are soul realities,” with “mein liebster” at a safe distance. “I have never had one at all like it, and…

— Megan Marshall

I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen…

— William Shakespeare

“This is poetry, but it is not delicate and fragile, a placid ocean beneath a Bible vese on an inspirational poster. This…

— N.D. Wilson

I love to read long books. I enjoy experiencing that extension. But it's not something I feel comfortable with and not something…

— Shane McCrae

“[Judith Shakespeare] lives in you and in me [...] she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they…

— Virginia Woolf

“Yo, múltiple, como en contradicción”

— Julia de Burgos

Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

— Henry David Thoreau

Beer is prose. Wine is poetry.

— Jennifer Rosen

“Once a poet, always a poet.”

— Catherine McKenzie

Quote the raven nevermore.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The flavor of wine is like delicate poetry.

— Louis Pasteur

I think being a poet, period, is isolating.

— Victoria Chang

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

— Clarence Darrow