Poetry Quote by Nescio

“oh each poet’s a beautiful human girl who must die.”

— Alice Notley

“When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was that it wasn't a bad…

— Stephen Chbosky

“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

“Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?”

— Ally Condie

“Maybe poetry took the life out of both of them, Idea and friendship.”

— Kenneth Koch

“At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration…

— August Strindberg

“They call it poetry, what she feels with her mouth closed. By his.”

— self

“How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while in the…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.”

— Len Jenkin

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to…

— Jane Austen

“Poetry is the fellatio of the mind, but there's nothing there.”

— the mag man