Poetry Quote by The Smiths Download Open image “Spending warm Summer days indoors, writing frightening verse to a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg.” — The Smiths ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Poetry Summer Summer days
“It was one of those summers you’re nostalgic for even before it passes. Pale, bled skies. Thunderstorms in the night. Sour-smelling dawns. It brought… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
“Bleecker Street, Summer" Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor, for the eternal idleness of the imagined return, for rare flutes and bare feet, and the August bedroom of tangled sheets and the Sunday salt, ah violin! When I press summer dusks together, it is a month of street accordions and sprinklers laying the dust, small shadows running… — Derek Walcott Copy Share
“Unlike the summer sun, my life has started to fade Forsaken by the memories of thee, which once shone like the jade. My eyes… — Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal Copy Share Image
“And Summer, dear Summer, hath years of June, With large white clouds, and cool showers at noon; And a beauty that grows to a… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“In the country, spring is a time of small happenings happening quietly, hyacinth shoots thrusting in a garden, willows burning with a sudden frosty… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“And in front of it all are the pearly gates: the proverbial entrance to Heaven that she, in earthly life, thought might not exist.… — Victoria Kahler Copy Share Image
The Pleading of the Summer - That other Prank - of Snow - That Cushions Mystery with Tulle, For fear the Squirrels - know. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share
Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core of this lovely and lyrical collection of poems. The weather changes, people come and go from cities and towns, babies are born, grow up and depart from their parents’ arms, but still, the countryside and… — Eleanor Lerman Copy Share
“Summer for prose and lemons, for nakedness and languor, for the eternal idleness of the imagined return, for rare flutes and bare feet, and… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Has the world changed or have I changed? Some nine year old tough who peddles drugs. — The Smiths Copy Share Image
A crack on the head is what you get for not asking, and a crack on the head is what you get for asking. — The Smiths Copy Share Image
“And if a double-decker bus crashes into us. To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.” — The Smiths Copy Share Image
“Sing me to sleep, sing me to sleep. I'm tired and I want to go to bed. SIng me to sleep, sing me to… — The Smiths Copy Share Image
He killed a policeman when he was thirteen, and somehow that really impressed me. — The Smiths Copy Share Image
You can kick me and you can punch me and you break my face, but you can't change the way that I feel cause… — The Smiths Copy Share Image
He comes sliding down the banister, the vicar in a tutu. He's not strange, he just wants to live his life this way. — The Smiths Copy Share Image
Keats and Yeats are on your side, but you lose because Wilde is on mine. — The Smiths 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