Poetry Quote by Nicola Yoon Download Open image ““You poet boys are dangerous.”” — Nicola Yoon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“You want to be a poet and you’re not. By the time you realize you’re not doomed, your life is going to be over… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
“There are a handful of poems, which perhaps might need their own warning for the people who are frightened, disturbed, or terminally puzzled by… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.” — Mary Crow Copy Share Image
“Today a young poet brought me 75 poems, some of them many pages long, I shall no doubt make an enemy of him again… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I’m desperate to prevent her tears, but not because I’m noble or anything. I’m kind of a contagion cryer. You know how when one… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“What did you get?' I lean my head back against his chest. 'Seashell necklace for my mom. Pineapple ashtray for Kara.' 'Why do people… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“Listening to the magnified sound of my own breath is peaceful and strangely euphoric. I'm being reassured with every breath that I'm more than… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“Human beings are not reasonable creatures. Instead of being ruled by logic, we are ruled by emotions.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“Maybe he (or she-but who are we kidding? God's definitely a guy. How else to explain war, pestilence, and morning wood?)” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“Almost everything in the night sky gives off light. Even if we can't see it, the light is still there.” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“Once you become part of the world, the world becomes a part of you, too” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“love: a chemical history. ...The second stage, attraction, is governed by dopamine and serotonin. When, for example, couples report feeling indescribably happy in each… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“If the person who's meant to love you forever can suddenly stop, then what is there to believe in?” — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. There’s a pure kind of joy in the… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“America’s not really a melting pot. It’s more like one of those divided metal plates with separate sections for starch, meat, and veggies.” — Nicola Yoon 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
