Poetry Quotes · Page 160

“i believe that everyone in the world. has one poem. that is their soulmate.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.

— Dejan Stojanovic

“Our souls fell in love long before we ever knew.”

— N.R.Hart

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

— Khalil Gibran

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

— Diane Wakoski

The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.

— Henry David Thoreau

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

— Dorothy Allison

“To write a poems needs a lot of pain to generate a little cure”

— Dwi Kuzuma

“We are supposed to do something with these/Damn hearts of ours, and we are meant to love and be loved.”

— Rob Bignell

As we produce work that becomes pure poetry, we impact and influence our teammates, we wow our suppliers, we inspire customers and…

— Robin S. Sharma

“The amount of her madness depends on the amount of her love. If she is crazy, frantic, insane with you, then simply…

— Melody Lee

There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier…

— Multatuli

I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed,…

— Corin Nemec

and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting…

— Charles Dickens

Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere…

— Horace

It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq…

— Hassan Blasim

“Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary, for what Eliot…

— Jonah Lehrer

“I envision a style: a style that would be beautiful, that someone will invent some day, ten years or ten centuries from…

— Gustave Flaubert

“it is the blood of the peasant, the sweat of the weaver, the flesh of the artisan, the words of the poet,…

— Anand Neelakantan

An artist in my eyes, is someone who can lighten up a dark room. I have never and will never find difference…

— Eric Cantona

“Fat people are not here as a foil to boost your own self-esteem. Fat people are not your inspiration poem. Fat people…

— Lindy West

Architect, Astronaut, Composer, Writer, Artist, Poet, Love, Lover, Friend, Guide, Perfect Clarity, Complete Madness, Captain, Slave, Passion, Indifference, Hate, Joy, Full, Empty,…

— Eric Nickel

“It is the very nature of language to form rather than inform. When language is personal, which it is at its best,…

— Eugene Peterson

The whole history of modern poetry is a continuous commentary on the short text of philosophy: every art should become science, and…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.”

— Jane Hirshfield

What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood?

— Pablo Neruda

“i want to stay curled and cosied and chocolated…forever in my mother’s arms.”

— Sanober Khan

“The words of a good book may be profuse, but the words of a good poem are profound.”

— Gregory John

“The very essence of I is being killed by You.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“Your fate is never determined when your massive imagination is.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

— Don Marquis

“Heaven's no place for one who thrives on hell.”

— Carrie Fisher

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“I’m writing my name Like I used to write lovers’ Over and over”

— Jessica Lucci

I love Roald Dahl, Sharon Olds, Nizar Qabbani, who is a poet, and Junot Diaz.

— Rupi Kaur

It is impossible to be a mathematician without being a poet in soul.

— Sofia Kovalevskaya

“We inspire each other. Poets and Artists are best friends and muses for each other.”

— Avijeet Das

Sometimes I write from the end of the verse to the beginning of the verse.

— Rakim

“Sun shines above making diamonds of light Tink-tinkling, tap dancing, and bright.”

— Mommy Moo Moo

“May, and after a rainy spring We walk streets gallant with rhododendrons.”

— Alicia Suskin Ostriker