Poetry Quote by Else Lasker-Schüler Download Open image ““A true poet does not say 'azure'; a true poet says 'blue.”” — Else Lasker-Schüler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“A true poet writes from the language and experiences of their own heart, not those of others.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.” — David J Delaney Copy Share Image
“Poets aren't poets because of the way they write, they are poets because of the way they see the world.” — Brandon Gene Petit Copy Share Image
“When a poet speaks of truth to another poet, what hope has truth?” — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“On the contrary I am not a poet, I am just a writer who happens to write poetry.” — Kenneth G. Ortiz Copy Share Image
My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home. — Else Lasker-Schuler Copy Share Image
Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave. — Else Lasker-Schuler Copy Share Image
“At home I have a blue piano. But I can’t play a note. It’s been in the shadow of the cellar door Ever since… — Else Lasker-Schuler Copy Share Image
My love for you is the sole image / Of God a human is allowed. — Else Lasker-Schuler Copy Share Image
“Please lift your snowy skies off my soul - Your diamond dreams slice through my veins” — Else Lasker-Schüler Copy Share Image
“Dark as it is – you see, that little flickering, is the light of my soul.” — Else Lasker-Schüler 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
