Poetry Quotes
Quotes about Poetry
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- “The Girl With Many EyesOne day in the parkI had quite a surprise.I met a girlwho had many eyes.She was really quite pret...” — Tim Burton
- “Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.''Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.''When are we happy?'...” — Vikram Chandra, Red Earth And Pouring Rain
- “What makes us leave what we love best?What is it inside us that keeps erasing itselfWhen we need it most,That sends us i...” — Charles Wright, Littlefoot: A Poem
- “There Will Be StarsThere will be stars over the place forever;Though the house we loved and the street we loved are lost...” — Sara Teasdale, Dark Of The Moon
- “I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn th...” — Charlotte Eriksson
- “Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammerin...” — Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Essays Of Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The aching in my chest isn't because I miss you,it's realizing that you have become someone I no longer know,your fears,...” — Tanzy Sayadi, Liquid Prose Quotes
- “You darkness, that I come from,I love you more than all the firesthat fence in the world,for the fire makesa circle of l...” — Rainer Maria Rilke
- “But often, in the world’s most crowded streets,But often, in the din of strife,There rises an unspeakable desireAfter th...” — Matthew Arnold, Matthew Arnold: The Complete Poems
- “Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot r...” — Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft Of Verse
- “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,B...” — George Gordon Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
- “You know, there are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them. I mean, so what if two roads go two way...” — Gary D. Schmidt, Okay For Now
- “The bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling...” — Shel Silverstein
- “The wind may be invisible, but it’s colored by memories of you, as you gently blew into my life, adding motion and emoti...” — Jarod Kintz, Liquid Prose Quotes
- “Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you.Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you.And without feet I can make my way to you...” — Rainer Maria Rilke
- “And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber doo...” — Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems
- “Voodoo GirlHer skin is white cloth,and she's all sewn apartand she has many colored pinssticking out of her heart.She ha...” — Tim Burton
- “...But...to sing,to dream, to smile, to walk, to be alone, be free,with a voice that stirs and an eye that still can see...” — Edmond Rostand, Cyrano De Bergerac
- “i don't want to hate the presidenti don't want to go to harvardi don't want to win the pulitzer prizei just want to sit ...” — Ellen Kennedy
- “You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.This is but half the truth.You are also...” — Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
- “The sunset produces flower clouds in a garden in the sky, and while there is still light you can see a heavenly represen...” — Jarod Kintz, Liquid Prose Quotes
- “It is always what I have already said: always the wish that you may find patience enough in yourself to endure, and simp...” — Rainer Maria Rilke
- “won't you celebrate with mewhat i have shaped intoa kind of life? i had no model.born in babylonboth nonwhite and womanw...” — Lucille Clifton
- “Follow, poet, follow rightTo the bottom of the night,With your unconstraining voiceStill persuade us to rejoice;With the...” — W.h. Auden, Another Time
- “You are always new. THe last of your kisses was ever the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the g...” — John Keats, Bright Star: Love Letters And Poems Of John Keats To Fanny Brawne
- “I wanted the past to go away, I wantedto leave it, like another country; I wantedmy life to close, and openlike a hinge,...” — Mary Oliver, Dream Work
- “You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacin...” — T.s. Eliot, The Waste Land And Other Writings
- “You know how this is:if I lookat the crystal moon, at the red branchof the slow autumn at my window,if I touchnear the f...” — Pablo Neruda, The Captain's Verses
- “A Robin Redbreast in a CagePuts all Heaven in a Rage.A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeonsShudders Hell thro’ all i...” — William Blake
- “To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that disc...” — George Eliot, Middlemarch
- “APPLY WITHINYou once told meYou wanted to findYourself in the world -And I told you toFirst apply within,To discover the...” — Suzy Kassem
- “Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Me...” — W.b. Yeats, The Collected Poems Of W.b. Yeats
- “I want my own will, and I wantsimply to be with my will,as it goes toward action.And in the silent, sometimes hardly mov...” — Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book Of Hours: Love Poems To God
- “We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where...” — Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
- “Everyone I have lost in the closing of a doorthe click of the lockis not forgotten, theydo not die but remainwithin the ...” — Sherman Alexie, The Business Of Fancydancing
- “I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a mirac...” — Walt Whitman, Leaves Of Grass
- “Sometimes I dreamthat everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly,and I am here to...” — Mary Oliver
- “I saw my face todayAnd it looked older,Without the warmth of wisdomOr the softnessBorn of pain and waiting.The dreams we...” — James Kavanaugh, There Are Men Too Gentle To Live Among Wolves
- “My face in thine eye, thine in mine appeares, And true plaine hearts doe in the faces rest, Where can we finde two bette...” — John Donne, The Complete English Poems
- “Fireflies in the GardenBy Robert Frost 1874–1963 Here come real stars to fill the upper skies, And here on earth come em...” — Robert Frost, The Poetry Of Robert Frost
- “The rain set early in tonight,The sullen wind was soon awake,It tore the elm-tops down for spite,And did its best to vex...” — Robert Browning
- “Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,write me a poem,” deserves something in reply.So I’ll tell a secret instead:poems hi...” — Naomi Shihab Nye, Red Suitcase
- “I remember being surrounded by the heaven-sent scent of July pine in the Rockies, as you and I laughed and danced like t...” — Jarod Kintz, Liquid Prose Quotes
- “If my like for you was a football crowd, you’d be deaf ’cause of the roar. And if my like for you was a boxer, there’d b...” — Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon
- “I could be in the middle of a spiritual hurricane, my soul torn and tormented, but when I see you smile it's blue skies ...” — Jarod Kintz, Liquid Prose Quotes
- “You're trying not to tell him you love him, and you're trying to choke down the feeling, and you're trembling, but he re...” — Richard Siken, Crush
- “Staring GirlI once knew a girlwho would just stand there and stare.At anyone or anything,she seemed not to careShe'd sta...” — Tim Burton
- “Pirate Captain Jim"Walk the plank,"says Pirate Jim"But Captain Jim, I cannot swim.""Then you must steer us through the g...” — Shel Silverstein
- “A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks...” — Virginia Woolf, Orlando
- “And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time...” — Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook