Poetry Quotes · Page 53

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

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

— Carrie Fisher

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.

— Don Marquis

“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

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become…

— Michael Leunig

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

— Carl Sandburg

There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like…

— Dave Grohl

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

— Mark Twain

Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

— Roddy Woomble

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

“I have written in my life many critical poems, but viewed in retrospect, they were merely a human harmless reflection, and not…

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music…

— Margaret Mitchell

“My wishes,’ continued the poet, ‘are as follows. Firstly, may Valdo Marx, the troubadour of Cidaris, die of apoplexy as soon as…

— Andrzej Sapkowski

I had been thinking about the question, "What do I love about America?" I kept coming back to this idea of community…

— Richard Blanco

One day while studying a Yeats poem I decided to write poetry the rest of my life. I recognized that a single…

— Robert Bly

I don't believe in writer's block. I'll get stuck, but being stuck, I'll still write a verse. If you know where you're…

— Rakim

“I am unknown; what does it matter? Poets are brothers. These lines believe; they love; they hope; and that is all. Dear…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“ Making a Fist For the first time, on the road north of Tampico, I felt the life sliding out of me,…

— Naomi Shihab Nye

I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman…

— Cynthia Ozick

“The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, & Issa, edited by Robert Hass.”

— Michael Wallace

Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".

— Ambrose Bierce

Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you.

— May Sarton

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

— Charles Baudelaire

The sky dreams of stars, the earth dreams of love.

— Mihai Eminescu

“One smile is equivalent of a hundred poems.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting.

— Janine Turner

It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

— I. A. Richards

“No more can this Angel teach her, Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake ...”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“There will always a glimmer in those who have been through the dark.”

— Atticus Poetry

I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

— Taylor Momsen

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

— Mark Strand

I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played.

— Mattie Stepanek

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

— Yehuda Amichai

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

— Virginia Woolf

The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.

— Jean Cocteau