Poetry Quotes · Page 84

“He was the type of happy you always dreamt you could be.”

— Bailey Nadeen

“My cup is yellow Or not, though not's Impossible It's yellow”

— Aram Saroyan

It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

— Jack Kerouac

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

— Mary MacLane

Feeling like a boss when you sing a fast verse from a song successfully.

— Anonymous

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

— Jim Jarmusch

Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.

— Mary Ruefle

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The piano is kind of like a dance floor for our thoughts you know? A very woody foundation so that we can…

— Anonymous

The meaning of a poem is in the cadences and the shape of the lines and the pulse of the thought which…

— George Oppen

I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.

— Jack Prelutsky

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

— David McCullough

[The story of Adam and Eve] it's poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval…

— Frank Moore Cross

“It is dishonest to give me a poem and pretend to want my opinion when what you really want are reasons to…

— Deborah Levy

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its…

— James Gates Percival

“Each time we bow to the feet of anything we find riveting, the mind rises to be surprised with new crowning diamonds…

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

“If passion was a substance I would say it is dark brown, and then blood red. It's like wet grass, tons of…

— Eileen Myles

KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way,…

— Ambrose Bierce

I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon,…

— George Packer

“And yet I would not be a child again. For surely as the night succeeds the day, So surely will their mirth…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“Solitude my solace, wrapped around me like layers of golden hair. Stacks of books and I can sing as loud as I…

— Jeannine Hall Gailey

“Put your ears to the ground, to the sky, to the sun and the moon... tune in to Mother Earth's sweet song.…

— Melody Lee

“A habitual indulgence in the inarticulate is a sure sign of the philosopher who has not learned to think, the poet who…

— George Santayana

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like…

— Leonard Cohen

“It is the best way to write poetry, letting things come." -Winnie-the-Pooh”

— A.A. Milne

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

— E. B. White

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear.

— Anonymous

The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.

— Edward Dahlberg

I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.

— Khalil Gibran

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.

— Edward Hirsch

“Sex and love are what make the world go round. It's the heart of poetry and music.”

— Vonnie Davis

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote.

— Yevgeny Yevtushenko

All poetry is difficult to read - The sense of it anyhow.

— Robert Browning

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

— James Fenton

“Her mind is a mess, and she has no intention of cleaning today.”

— Alfa H

“A great poet gives words wings to fly in the reader's perceptual sky.”

— Debasish Mridha

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

— Manuel Puig

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

— Margaret Atwood

“I think I would asphyxiate in all your light. I need my darkness…I need my madness.”

— Melody Lee