Poetry Quote by Alice Becker-Ho

“Argot is nothing more nor less than a wardrobe in which language, having some bad deed to do, disguises itself. It puts on word-masks…

— Victor Hugo

“The Gypsies are living poetry”

— Karl Wiggins

“For the Gypsy, it’s moments in time that count, not interpretations or rhetorical questions or resolutions or justifications, and not even the journey’s end,…

— Karl Wiggins

“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to…

— Patti Smith

I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through…

— Van Morrison

“I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.”

— Roman Payne

“The celebrated opening image of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is another case in point: Let us go then, you and I,…

— Terry Eagleton

“You are one of us, one of those who knows without knowing, and one who will live and die in dreams that blend with…

— Mary-Jean Harris

“From the middle of a tomb whose lights burn only for survival…our tired bodies finally understand and obey our beating hearts. Meet me in…

— Jimi Hendrix

“We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks…

— George Steiner

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That is, the…

— William Shakespeare

“The Gypsy heart is full of wonder, their souls deep with dreams and their inspiration full of mystery.”

— Karl Wiggins