Poetry Quote by Robert Greene

“Where everything is words, you'd think I'd have some mastery and know my way around, but all this churning hatred, each man a verbal…

— Philip Roth

“The words 'Very finely played, sir, I believe' were formed in his gullet if not in his mouth when he caught the cold and…

— Patrick O'Brian

“It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but…

— Wallace Stegner

“A glimpse of my feathers. Show too much and they’ll tear you apart Bird of Paradise Born in the trenches Facing the mouth of…

— Emily Bird

“In the very essence of poetry there is something indecent; A thing brought forth that we didn't know we had in us, So we…

— Czeslaw Milosz

“We two alone will sing like birds i' th' cage. When thou dost ask me blessing, I’ll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness.…

— William Shakespeare

“We must play from the soul, not like trained birds.”

— Anonymous

“You are a bird of ill-omen, thought Kelso. You circle the world and wherever you land there is famine and death and destruction: in…

— Robert Harris

“I believe that in the world there are no better people or a better land. They love their neighbors as themselves, and they have…

— Carol Delaney

“Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies”

— Oscar Sparrow

“So small a spirit, to lodge such sorrows as mankind has brought you. Live … live.… Wait for me, new, frightened soul. And though…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“When birds eat from your hand, they are letting the whole world know that they trust you.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo