Metaphor Quote by David Joseph Cribbin

“Once, I believed in you like a poem, turned your heart into a metaphor for my heart, turned our mouths into honey and caramel…

— Shinji Moon

“The poets carry feelings, delivering desires and dispatching dreams. Even if sometimes they need pack some sorrows, distill several disappointments and filter strange nightmares.”

— Juliano Alves

“The serious poet should seek to explore the 'sources' of these global nightmares-and to explore them not just in poetry, but in person. Poetry…

— John Berryman

Poetry takes on meaning when it becomes one metaphor.

— Jeremy Limn

“Poetry, to me, is a type of shamanistic chant capable of chasing away the darkness within us.”

— Leila Samarrai

No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a…

— Robert Graves

“A life without poetry is a life without heart, without laughter, without crying - it's a life without feelings.”

— Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

— Paul Valery

Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express.

— Erica Jong

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

— Charles Simic

“A poem isn't a good poem, until you need it.”

— J. David Gray

“Without pain, poetry is not possible.”

— seerat