Poetry Quote by Charles Bukowski

“There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.…

— Dan Chaon

“A man is lying under machine-gun fire on a street in an embattled city. He looks at the pavement and sees a very amusing…

— Czesław Miłosz

“Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.”

— Arthur Gordon

“I’ve had enough of chasing after poetry; I believe that poetry lies at one’s very door or perhaps in one’s very bed. I’m still…

— Gérard de Nerval

“But destiny grips us and, the next morning, in a soft winter rain, we buried the dead, paid silver coins, and then walked southward.…

— Bernard Cromwell

“I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each…

— Joseph Conrad

“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded trains, emergency…

— Janet Fitch

“Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that…

— William Butler Yeats

“Poetry is what you find in the dirt in the corner, overhear on the bus, God in the details, the only way to get…

— Elizabeth Alexander

“But destiny will be accomplished, and the best man will hold his ground while the undeserving one will vanish into his back-alley for ever…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Our friends were not poetical, and the sight suggested to them no metaphors of human destiny; they thought only of the wonderful efficiency of…

— Upton Sinclair

“While running simple errands I often became hopelessly confused in the maze of crowded, filthy streets that began twenty paces beyond the north gate…

— Ross King