Poetry Quote by Daniel Veach Download Open image ““A well-made poem is a little haunted house, a tangible dwelling place for the spirit”” — Daniel Veach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Religion
The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“Every small town has at least one house the children whisper about; the type of house that has always been abandoned; where the once pristine white paint has faded to a grimy gray; where the windows are boarded, and the lawn never grows; where children hold their breath and close their eyes as they pass by. A house that sounds… — The Blood Brothers Copy Share
“An unfinished poem is a half-built house, windows of air through the scaffolding.” — Jacob Oet Copy Share Image
Only a house, quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“The house felt haunted, like only I understood the way all of our shadows, the ones we’d left, had seeped into the wood and… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“My hope, for all future generations, is that they will have (in addition to sunshine, fresh air, clean water, and fertile soil) a somewhat slower pace of life, with plenty of time to pause, in quiet places . . . haunted places—everyday, accessible places, open to the public—places that are not too radically transformed over time—places susceptible of cultivation, where… — Anonymous Copy Share
Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set in an… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“It was either the wind or the spirit of the house itself, briefly unsettled by our nocturnal absence but to old to be surprised… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“These days many poets live in cities, or at least in suburbs, and the natural world grows ever more distant from our everyday lives.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
