Poetry Quote by Kate Braverman

“The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment, The illusion of a Greek necessity Flows in the scrolls of her…

— Sylvia Plath

“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

“Girls, be good to these spirits of music and poetry that breast your threshold with their scented gifts. Lift the lyre, clear and sweet,…

— Sappho

“She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with a slight jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments.…

— Joseph Conrad

“Long past the moment when her neck begins to stiffen and ache, she continues to stare into the darkness, even though none of the…

— Larry Watson

“She made up prayers and said them, Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing, Her customary magic, which would cover The white moon’s face and…

— Ovid

“.. And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. 'She walked with measured steps,…

— Joseph Conrad

“She bleeds poetry. She is an old soul. She has already existed since the day the Earth gave birth to nature. She felt the…

— Verliza Gajeles

“The poems which touched her heart most, suffusing her with exalted emotion, so that she felt she could gather everything to her, were those…

— halldor laxness

“the battered woman--for she wore a skirt--with her right hand exposed, her left clutching at her side, stood singing of love--love which has lasted…

— Virginia Woolf

“The faint hints of color in her complexion, her tawny blond hair, her extraordinary thinness, all spoke of that unearthly grace modern poets find…

— Honoré de Balzac

“And then there she was, a girl of elegant height, perhaps eighteen or nineteen years of age—gawky and coltish, all long legs and arms,…

— Jim Butcher