Poetry Quotes · Page 54

“In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

I used to do poetry in elementary school. I used to just write.

— Denzel Curry

The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets.

— William Carlos Williams

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

— Anonymous

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

— Paul Cezanne

“Dance, Live, Sing, Cry, Love, Travel and Love again, until the day you have to stop”

— Vanessa Vanney Thompson

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

— Confucius

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

— Philip Levine

In The Doors we have both musicians and poets, and both know of each other's art, so we can effect a synthesis.

— Robby Krieger

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always…

— Billy Collins

“One with compassion is kind even when angry; one without compassion will kill even as he smiles. SHABKAR, TIBETAN POET”

— Barbara Ann Kipfer

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

— Booker T. Washington

“I lose faith in mathematics, logical and rigid. What with those that even zero doesn’t accept?”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“I'll let no man in, unless of course, he knocks. Walk right in to my heart with a thousand locks.”

— Casey Renee Kiser

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

— Tony Harrison

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

And your eyes must do some raining if you're ever gonna grow / When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself /…

— Conor Oberst

We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian…

— Max Nordau

“ With whom do you believe your lot is cast? From where does your strength come? I think somehow, somewhere every poem…

— Adrienne Rich

“An as-yet-unpublished poet in Boulder, Colorado, once said to me that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. I may seem, in…

— Joanna Russ

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“. . .In a heartbeat, you will fall right into that novel, that poem, the story that you are most in love…

— Terry Kennedy

“UP You wake up filled with dread. There seems no reason for it. Morning light sifts through the window, there is birdsong,…

— Margaret Atwood

“At real stripper bars women just dance—so many things they could be checking off their lists. I guess men don’t want to…

— Jill McDonough

At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

— Gregory Orr

“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.”

— Noam Shpancer

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

— Bob Dylan

A parent, unlike a poet, is not born - he is made.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

A lot of poems are boring and impenetrable. Mine are not. They're really simple.

— Tim Key

“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

— Wilfred Owen

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

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

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

— Jane Hirshfield

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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