Poetry Quotes · Page 23

“A poem is contained movement. ”

— William Everson

Wine is bottled poetry.~ RL Stevenson

— Aroha Janet

I have my books and my poetry to protect me

— Paul Simon

The true poem rests between the words.

— Vanna Bonta

“Find someone and live in awe of them.”

— Atticus Poetry

Poetry dovetails contradictions.

— Marilyn Hacker

Poetry is a break for freedom.

— David Whyte

“sad is the poem i will never write”

— Jeet how Romentic

Goadome Nikes, the cortazone of the poem writer.

— Wale

When poems are no good they don't make any sense.

— Derek Walcott

“If the sun rolled back like an eye, it would see the mind of God.”

— Cecilia Llompart

“From the mind which thinks to die, let my soul sleep tonight.”

— Santosh Kalwar

High School is the place where poetry goes to die.

— Billy Collins

“What's Love, if not this folly of a wider space, taking us to an innermost Love.”

— Teddy Crispin

My friend Akshay Upadhyay and I used to write poetry and read out to each other.

— Pankaj Kapur

“Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation.”

— Ray Bradbury

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream…

— Bill Willingham

“Having to explain to someone how they hurt you, always feels like an ass kicking... again.”

— Alfa H

The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.

— Philip James Bailey

“[Marianne Moore's definition of genuine poetry] -- Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.”

— Marianne Moore

If you've never been rocked back by the presence of purpose this poem is too soon for you. Return to your mediocrity,…

— Buddy Wakefield

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.

— Miller Williams

“It is not your job to understand. Sick people do sick things. You do not understand the mind of an abuser, because…

— Hannah V. Sawyerr

“It is in the last step that one finds the unfathomable beginning; it is in the aloneness that one discovers himself never…

— Heather K. O'Hara

I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress…

— Katherine Anne Porter

For the past thirty years or so, much American poetry has been marked by an earnestness that rejects the comic. This has…

— Stephen Dobyns

“But while admiring my neighbour, I don't think I shall ever try to follow in her steps, my talents not being of…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

When we did Cubist paintings, our intention was not to produce Cubist paintings but to express what was within us. No one…

— Pablo Picasso

“Because you fight it out, and stumble, and write bad poetry, and pick yourself up again, and at the end, hopefully, someday…

— Josie Bloss

The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“GERTRUDE (1964) Three men-her husband, a poet, and a young musician-love her, but because none of them will put his love for…

— Steven Jay Schneider

I see poetry as spiritual medicine.

— Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry is the deification of reality.

— Edith Sitwell

The cliche is dead poetry.

— Gerald Brenan

Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement.

— Maya Angelou

Writing a poem is discovering.

— Robert Frost

“She wore the moonlight like lingerie. ”

— Atticus Poetry

Is not poetry the food of love?

— Jane Austen

[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

— Dylan Thomas