Poetry Quotes · Page 74

In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.

— Li-Young Lee

“...I wish I could tell the tale of your beauty as my rough hands caress your face...”

— John Geddes

“Poetry and beauty are born out of pain. This is their glory, this is our gain.”

— S. Tarr

I let my narrative embroidering impulses take over in prose poems.

— Matthea Harvey

Well, I still write poetry, but I wouldn't call myself a poet.

— David Duchovny

A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.

— Jack Prelutsky

Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.

— Phyllis McGinley

The function of poetry is to point out that the sign is not identical to the referent.

— Roman Jakobson

Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise

— Marianne Moore

Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of…

— Paul Engle

“It is not easy to describe lucidly in short notes to a poem the various approaches to a fortified castle,”

— Vladimir Nabokov

When true legends unite ,And for a common cause they fight .Then its them- the Gods , who must fear their might

— Kevin Knight

Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say.

— Ralph Fletcher

“There's a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter.”

— Roberto Bolano ( ) Natasha Wimmer

“Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .”

— Mary O'Neill

“I don't have poetry like you do. I only know that I love how my sheets smell after you've been in my…

— Lauren Dane

“Where there’s madness, there’s genius. Where there is genius, there’s creativity. We all have it somewhere within us; that hint of madness,…

— Melody Lee

“In the country whereto I go I shall not see the face of my friend Nor her hair the color of sunburnt…

— Louise Bogan

When I saw the sun bears at the Oakland Zoo, I immediately was drawn to them. Not to be ornery, but regarding…

— Matthew Zapruder

“There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks…

— Alice Hoffman

“Too long now things divine have been cheaply used And all the power of heaven, the kindly, spent In trifling waste by…

— Friedrich Hölderlin

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and…

— Masiela Lusha

Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such…

— Omar Khayyam

I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however…

— Adrienne Rich

Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I would rather be regretted than remembered fondly.”

— Justin Bond

“Occasionally you can hear her howl, when the sky is black and the moon is full.”

— Melody Lee

For even bad poetry has relevance for what it does not say for what it leaves out.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind.

— Richard M. Weaver

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

— Robert Frost

I think most poets are natural witnesses and were curious about everything.

— Allison Hedge Coke

“...poets generally write as if they were dead.”

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

A connection between poetry and blindness is a classical trope.

— Justin Cartwright

“She was afraid of heights but she was much more afraid of never flying.”

— Atticus Poetry

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

— Marianne Moore

“Poetry doesn’t pay. But I need it. And so do you.”

— Cory Basil

Fiction—and poetry and drama— cleanse the doors of perception.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

No book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.

— Dan Simmons

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

A girl broke my heart & it bring out the poet in me!!

— Glen Rambharack