Poetry Quotes · Page 77

“To a poet every curve of her was a well place word.”

— Atticus Poetry

The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

“If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Once upon a time I fell in love Lost myself And find another one.”

— Arzum Uzun

“Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around,” said the poet Adrienne Rich.”

— Alfie Kohn

Song of myself is a great American Epic poem.

— RMKATTA

“A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“World without poetry is like a lover without a rose”

— Shiny

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great…

— Richard Flanagan

I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will…

— P. G. Wodehouse

Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

— Franz Grillparzer

“I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to write an impromptu poem for you. 'Rose is in red But never…

— Adrian Ivashkov

Sometimes a poem should just be about a girl jumping rope. It doesn't have to be something that is imbued with more…

— Clint Smith

“There is a time when the soul closes its eyes and kneels before its own divinity; and a time when it rises…

— Heather K. O'Hara

“...it seemed almost inconceivable that in his short marriage to Althea she had, in her quiet way, left him feeling not only…

— Andre Dubus III

“When Straight Women Flirt …With Me She sits on my lesbian lap both of us too much wine arm around my shoulder…

— Nancy Boutilier

“Listen. Do you see that you can’t hear snowfall? Look. Do you sense that you can’t see love? Touch. Do you grasp…

— Kamand Kojouri

“Mountain Center" Maureen McLane The cords are strong a loose weave strung between white pines. Now I will offer a transcript of…

— Maureen McLane

“WE ARE ALL HUMAN It should not matter - That we grew up On opposite banks, Opposite streets, The opposite Side of…

— Suzy Kassem

“Matt smirked. “Well, it is interesting because lots of poems have mathematical imagery or structure. Concrete triangular poems and syllabic verse, for…

— Jessica Park

I have been writing. Even when I intend not to write, I find myself writing. I'm currently in a place where I…

— Ada Limon

“And I'll flip through the newest issue, walking back from my blue mailbox, hunting for the poem he chose over mine, and…

— Nicholson Baker

Often it is a moment rather than an event that makes a poem.

— Tracy K. Smith

In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse;

— Robert Herrick

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

— Anatole Broyard

“Where the bright seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.”

— John Milton

I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.

— Rita Dove

I give her sadness and the gift of pain, a new moon madness and a love of rain.

— Dorothy Parker

“Close your mouth and open your mind. Lose your self and find your soul.”

— Melody Lee

“Were knowledge all, what were our need To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?”

— Christopher Brennan

The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.

— Kim Hyesoon

“A friend of mine has a ritual: He writes a poem every day with his morning coffee.”

— Arianna Huffington

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

— Stanley Kunitz

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

— Honore de Balzac

“A versifier passes through the sound; sounds go through a poet.”

— Dejan Stojanovic

“We are all too fixed on wrecking ourselves rather than bettering ourselves.”

— Meggie Royer

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

— John Galsworthy

“Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity.”

— William Wordsworth