Poetry Quotes · Page 65

“I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love”

— Jane Austen

“O rose, you look sick. O rose, wake up and sing.”

— Santosh Kalwar

“Has father from Heaven Sent the Angel to me?”

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Do not turn me into restless waters if you cannot promise to be my stream.”

— Sanober Khan

“[on the Irish] A race of poets and wordsmiths, my ass.”

— M. Edward McNally

“He hope she'd find somebody who would text her love poetry in the middle of the night”

— Erin Lawless

“a poet must be a composer of plots rather than of verses,”

— Aristotle

I was able to read poets that were - allowed me to be humorous without being silly.

— Billy Collins

Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are…

— Joy Harjo

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the…

— Charles Baudelaire

Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test…

— Babette Deutsch

“I have an attraction to strange and unusual things. I find them interesting, spellbinding, utterly fascinating.”

— Melody Lee

Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes.

— Jack London

I'm not a rock star writing poetry. I don't feel like a rock star and I don't know what one is, actually.…

— Gord Downie

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

— Josephine Hart

“Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.”

— Pablo Neruda

“Wanting All Husband, it's fine the way your mind performs Like a circus, sharp As a sword somebody has To swallow, rough…

— Alicia Ostriker

“Outside, the meadows - dewy and golden are cloaked in summer blooms. My heart, scorching and desolate sighs and sings sad songs…

— Neena H Brar

The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which…

— Matthew Zapruder

One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar…

— Alice Oswald

A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the…

— Cynthia Rylant

“The first verses establish an immediate correspondence with what Revelation was later to recount about the creation of humankind: “He [God] taught…

— Tariq Ramadan

“You carried your infant daughter in one arm, and walked with me, a child six years of age, tired, trudging beside you.…

— Parnaz Foroutan

I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an…

— Mary Ruefle

“A well-made poem is a little haunted house, a tangible dwelling place for the spirit”

— Daniel Veach

Your poems will happen when no one is there.

— May Sarton

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

— Milan Kundera

“the beauty of poetic apprehension, the infinite joy of reason.”

— Ian McEwan

Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.

— Marilyn Hacker

We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Poetry is a man arguing with himself; rhetoric is a man arguing with others.

— Robert Hass

Who writes poetry imbibes honey from the poisoned lips of life.

— Anonymous

“I am the author of my Life and Lovestory, I wrote it in poetry”

— Patrick Cruz

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

— William Shenstone

“How…will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.”

— Sanober Khan

“Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.”

— robert m drake

The first time I ever cried in a movie was in Dead Poet's Society.

— John Krasinski

“We walked through night until there was a poem.”

— Brenda Hillman

Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse.

— Tracy Chapman

IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.

— Ambrose Bierce