Poetry Quote by P G Wodehouse Download Open image ““The unpleasant, acrid smell of burnt poetry.”” — P G Wodehouse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry
“Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I still hadn’t understood; how there’s a certain smell to a dispossessed soul, acrid, bitter as smoke, the irrefutable odour of an angry refugee,… — Elisabeth Gifford Copy Share Image
“He never described himself as a poet or his work as poetry. The fact that the lines do not come to the edge of… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“Curse my poetic nature, as I don't mean to speak in poetic ways, but to just illustrate the heat and the pain i feel… — Lore Stormrider Copy Share Image
“True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
“I remained motionless, like a ventriloquist's dummy whose ventriloquist has gone off to the local and left it sitting.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Major-General Sir Wilfred Bosher came to distribute the prizes at that school', proceeded Gussie in a dull, toneless voice.'He dropped a book. He stooped… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I don't know if you suffer in the same way, but with me the act of talking in the nature of real mashed potatoes… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“He seemed a little uneasy, and he welcomed me with something of the gratitude of the shipwrecked mariner who sights a sail.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The first intimation I had that things were about to hot up was a pained and disapproving cough from the neighbourhood of the carpet.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“It is a peculiar thing in life that the people you most particularly want to edge away from always seem to cluster round like… — p g wodehouse Copy Share Image
“She had a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge.” — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I gave it up. The man annoyed me. I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie, but… — P G Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“So!' he said, at length, and it came as a complete surprise to me that fellows ever really do say 'So!'. I had always… — P G Wodehouse 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
