Caress Quote by Adrian Mitchell Download Open image “Poetry is an extra hand. It can caress or tickle. It can clench and fight.” — Adrian Mitchell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Caress Extras Fighting Hands Poetry Poetry is
Poetry is a lyrical insinuation. Often, its melodic subtlety kisses the subconscious mind. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto the page. — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
Poetry is more than a form of art. It's a vibration and a pulsing heart. Whether it's sour or whether it's sweet. It can… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“Most people ignore most poetry because poetry ignores most people.” — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
I use the language I use to my friends. They wouldn't believe me if I used some high-flown literary language. I want them to… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
“When I am sad and weary When I think all hope has gone When I walk along High Holborn I think of you with… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
I want to speak, to sing to total strangers. It's my way of talking to the world. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
The maiden Olympics had more to protest about than mere war, though. Central to its ethos was a rejection of two establishments the political… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with… — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
I would have walked on the waterBut I wasn't fully insured.And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
My love is like the wind and wild is the wind. Give me more than one caress, satisfy my hungriness. Let the wind blow… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
“When bodies talk, a hand brushing across a face declares love the tongue never speaks. When bodies talk, eyes make promises and lips keep… — Stella Payton Copy Share Image
“The caress of each word becoming one with the page. Twisting beneath the touch of the pen, forming a trail of permanent kisses, until… — N'Zuri Za Austin Copy Share Image
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that are right, or at the… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
May the bird of paradise fly up your nose, may an elephant caress you with his toes, may your wife be plagued with runners… — Little' Jimmy Dickens Copy Share Image
Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise. Become a stranger to need of pity. Or if compassion be freely given out, take only enough. Stop… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
A bomb makes more noise than a caress, but for each bomb that destroys, there are millions of caresses that nourish life. — Facundo Cabral Copy Share Image
I have been a hundred times on the point of killing myself, but still was fond of life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
