Poetry Quotes · Page 183

“ERRORS ARE WHAT MAKE US HUMAN. PLOT TWIST: I'M A HORSE.”

— Amy King

“She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.”

— Brandon Villasenor

Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings.

— David Biespiel

A poet needs a pen, a painter a brush, and a director an army.

— Orson Welles

Feeling like Rap God when you sing a fast verse from a song successfully.

— Anonymous

“ASK NOT IF POETRY IS DEAD, ASK HOW YOU CAN LIVE FOR POETRY.”

— Amy King

“You play me with your jazz & leave me with the blues.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“it's so easy to be a poet and so hard to be a man.”

— Charles Bukowski

“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready…

— William H. Gass

“I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And…

— Wallace Stevens

“Kamu bilang cinta adalah baitbait paling purnama dalam hidup ini. Selamat malam, kamu yg gigil dalam puisi...”

— Helvy Tiana Rosa

Dear one, near me, truth assessed, reborn worldwise, mind at rest. True heart sow you, God has blessed, your soul whispers, love…

— George Harrison

“From the sun to the moon From the clouds to the stars You are living in a painting under the skies”

— J.WOLF

Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

— Jessie Redmon Fauset

Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

— Carl Sandburg

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

— Mahmoud Darwish

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And…

— George Oppen

The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he…

— Mary Oliver

“ Boy and Egg Every few minutes, he wants to march the trail of flattened rye grass back to the house of…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

[Bob] Dylan's many quotations from classic American roots music (that song is from an album aptly titled Love and Theft) join the…

— Jay Michaelson

There are certainly times in history where power associates itself closely with fields that we would call the humanities, like rulers surrounding…

— Elliott Colla

These are all direct quotes, except every time they use a curse word, I'm going to use the name of a famous…

— John Green

A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I think poetry bridges text and image. Poetry is visual in its imagery - but it requires close attention to words themselves.…

— Allegra Goodman

“Every verse in the scrolls of your days sings to us of hope and wonder.”

— Zoe Klein

When I see great boxers, it's like reading a wonderful poem.

— Liam Neeson

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

— John Quincy Adams

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

— Andre Gide

“Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.”

— Mary Crow

For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know,

— Banjo Paterson

No verse is libre for the man who wants to do a good job.

— Ezra Pound

poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God.

— Marjorie Holmes

I was really artistic. I did a lot of poetry, a lot of writing.

— Dreezy

“or that writing a poem you can read to no one is like dancing in the dark.”

— Ovid

“ Philosophers, Poets and Fools have similar Consciousness ”

— Amit Gupta

“it is being honest about my pain that makes me invincible.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

“A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”

— Rudyard Kipling

Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

— Brooks Atkinson

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

— Octavio Paz