Books Quote by Jeanette O'Hagan

“Without this excitement they cannot have their Lyric Verse, and so they get it by any convenient means -- and with absolute sincerity --…

— A.S. Byatt

“Tomorrow I shall write something beautiful, something so serene that storms will rise suddenly and protest with ferocious screams. I shall write poems for…

— Tonny K. Brown

“I'm... like a poet hidden In the light of thought Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes and fears…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Poetry is one of my guilty pleasures and I want to thank you poets for providing me with beautiful words that I can devour…

— Nina Jean Slack

“For all but the sliver of poetry fans, over the past forty years popular song lyrics have been the nation’s poetry.”

— John McWhorter

One of the springs of poetry is joy.

— May Sarton

“Poetry may appear to be just words, but it is an extension of our lives. It is the music of life and for us…

— Abdul Milazi

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

— William Shenstone

“Every day we hear a little melody,reading a beautiful poem, see a fine painting and,If possible, say the words.”

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Poetry magically excites an unknown mysterious emotion.”

— Debasish Mridha

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

“But many people just love to be in the midst of that poetry, to keep experiencing what’s perplexing, what’s beautiful, what’s true.”

— John Timpane