Poetry Quotes · Page 26

“A woman is strong until she don't trust”

— seerat

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

— Wallace Stevens

There are poets and there are grownups.

— Jean Cocteau

Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

— Adrienne Rich

Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry.

— Jack Spicer

we have let rhetoric do the job of poetry.

— Cherrie Moraga

In the end, the world returns to a grain.

— Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry is more a threshold than a path.

— Seamus Heaney

a poet will even face death when he sees his people oppressed.

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

“I love what I see because one day I will cease to see it. And simply because it is.”

— Ricardo Reis

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

— Hortense Calisher

“Madness and chaos are self-destructing but over thinking is the suicide.”

— robert m drake

“Writing poems is simply an excuse to remember You.”

— Kamand Kojouri

“The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

— Eileen Myles

So many poems you go into and come up empty.

— Maxine Kumin

The language of the age is never the language of poetry, except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image…

— Thomas Gray

We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry…

— Anais Nin

Poetry is a religion without hope, but its martyrs guarantee the eternal truth of its dogma.

— Jean Cocteau

“On such a night,’ I thought, ‘were ill and good, Bright and unlovely; precious, tawdry, All mingled into one And pressed against…

— Irene Hunt

The line is a way of framing poetry. All verse is measured by lines. The poetic line immediately announces its difference from…

— Edward Hirsch

I do love the prose poem because it's such a perverse and provocative little box - always asking to be questioned, never…

— Matthea Harvey

“My kind of love is made for the stage, untouchable and unbroken; its fate is to be doomed in repetition, in the…

— Laura Chouette

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

— Naomi Shihab Nye

Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which…

— Jean Cocteau

My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and…

— Derek Walcott

The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“ A Baby Elephant Right now my love for you is a baby elephant Born in Berlin or in Paris, And treading…

— Nikolai Gumilev

“You take my breath away From mile away Hair, twice as nice Smile is your make up, angelic face You light up…

— Patrick Cruz

“The horses suddenly began to neigh, protesting Against those who were drowning them in the ocean. The horses sank to the bottom,…

— Boris Slutsky

I think Don Henley is a brilliant contemporary rock writer. He would have been a fabulous poet if he weren't a musician.…

— Don Felder

In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the…

— Brigid Brophy

“There is no poetic art like praying.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“A photograph is a poem without words”

— Holace

“Music is the poetry of the air.”

— Anonymous

Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced

— Christopher Logue

Poetry's a thing that belongs to everyone.

— Natasha Trethewey

“I'm a tangled mess of wild.”

— Melody Lee

Poetry is truth dwelling in beauty.

— Robert Gilfillan

History after all is the true poetry.

— Thomas Carlyle