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and discussion search Home My Books Groups Recommendations genres listopia giveaways popular goodreads voice ebooks fun trivia quizzes quotes community creative writing people events Explore quote Quotes About Poetry Quotes tagged as "poetry" (showing 1,591-1,620 of 3,000) Robert Graves There s no money in poetry, but there s no poetry in money, either ? Robert Graves tags: poetry, poets 13 likes Like Seamus Heaney I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job ? Seamus Heaney tags: poetry, poets, prosody 10 likes Like Ikkyu it isn't that we're alone or not alone whose voice do you want mine? yours? ? Ikkyu, Crow with No Mouth tags: koan, poetry, zen 9 likes Like Giacomo Leopardi Freedom is the dream you dream While putting thought in chains again -? Giacomo Leopardi, Canti tags: poetry, romanticism 8 likes Like Paul Celan Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle ? Paul Celan, Glottal Stop tags: arrow, poetry, tangle, target 7 likes Like Walter Savage Landor I strove with none, for none was worth my strife. Nature I loved and, next to Nature, Art:

I warm'd both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart. ? Walter Savage Landor tags: death, poetry 7 likes Like Denise Levertov Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts-he's here, but only because we are here. When we go, he goes with us to be your hands that never do violence, your eyes that wonder, your lives that daily praise life by living it, by laughter. He is never alone here, never cold in the field of graves. ? Denise Levertov tags: death, poetry 7 likes Like Paul Celan rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this. ? Paul Celan, Glottal Stop tags: conviction, pine, poetry, saying 7 likes Like Denise Levertov The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to hav e. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant. ? Denise Levertov tags: poetry 7 likes Like Don Marquis i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums but wotthehell wotthehell i wake the world from sleep as i caper and sing and leap when i sing my wild free tune wotthehell wotthehell under the blear eyed moon i am pelted with cast off shoon but wotthehell wotthehell ? Don Marquis, The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel tags: poetry 7 likes Like What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love t hat casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance. In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence be

gun. On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp -- praise song for walking forward in tha t light. ? Elizabeth Alexander tags: inauguration, inspirational, obama, poetry 6 likes Like Praise I cannot say it with mere words Convincingly So I sing it with the life I live Unflinchingly ? Linford Detweiler tags: poetry 6 likes Like Paul Valry Breath, dreams, silence, invincible calm, you triumph. ? Paul Valry tags: poetry 6 likes Like Julio Cortzar I am talking about the responsibility of the poet, who is irresponsible by defini tion, an anarchist enamored of a solar order and never of the new order or whate ver slogan makes five or six hundred million men march in step in a parody of or der. ? Julio Cortzar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds tags: poetry, poets 5 likes Like How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cune iform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prome theus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that we shoul d not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies. ? Alice Weaver Flaherty, The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Bloc k, and the Creative Brain tags: creativity, poetry, writing 5 likes Like Muriel Rukeyser The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality. ? Muriel Rukeyser tags: poetry 5 likes Like Yevgeny Yevtushenko How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himse lf, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessi ng. ? Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Stolen Apples tags: confessor, poetry, russian, sinners, sins 5 likes Like Yiannis Ritsos the fisherman s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder. ? Yiannis Ritsos, The Fourth Dimension tags: greece, poetry, poets 5 likes Like Wallace Stevens There will never be an end To this droning of the surf. ? Wallace Stevens tags: poetry 5 likes Like Wallace Stevens I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it was upon a hill. ? Wallace Stevens tags: poetry, tennessee 4 likes Like

The mystics,sages define poem or song as praise to the lord,When I write I hope I give justice accord ? Mohit.K.Misra tags: indian-philsophers, indian-poets, mohit-k-misra, philosophy, poetry, ponde r-awhile, spirituality 4 likes Like Sharing one umbrella, We have to hold each other, Round the waist to keep together, You ask me why I'm smilingIt's because I'm thinking, I want it to rain forever. ? Vicki Feaver tags: poetry 4 likes Like Aase Berg Poetry is a will to put things right, an imaginary solution, a way of avoiding a catastrophe that already happened. Poetry is an escape, perhaps intelligent, per haps idiotic, from a senile situation. It is a dialectical movement, it keeps te aring open the wounds while trying to heal them. Here we see the only acceptable path open up towards an existence worthy of human beings. Here the seriousness is unfaltering and absolute. Where it will lead no one knows. ? Aase Berg tags: poetry 4 likes Like Julio Cortzar Thirsty for being, the poet ceaselessly reaches out to reality, seeking with the indefatigable harpoon of the poem a reality that is always better hidden, more r e(g)al. The poem s power is as an instrument of possession but at the same time, i neffably, it expresses the desire for possession, like a net that fishes by itse lf, a hook that is also the desire of the fish. To be a poet is to desire and, a t the same time, to obtain, in the exact shape of the desire. ? Julio Cortzar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds tags: poetry, poets 4 likes Like Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled and stoked my senses. ? Lisa St. Aubin de Tern, The Palace the Palace tags: poetry 4 likes Like Ralph Waldo Emerson All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology. ? Ralph Waldo Emerson tags: myth, poetry 3 likes Like Mary Elizabeth Coleridge We never said farewell, not even looked Our last upon each other, for no sign Was made when we the linked chain unhooked And broke the level line. And here we dwell together, side by side, Our places fixed for life upon the chart, Two islands that the roaring seas divide Are not more far apart. ? Mary Elizabeth Coleridge tags: death, poetry 3 likes Like Wanda Coleman Many have referred to [Lewis] Carroll's rhymes as nonsense, but in my childhood w orld Los Angeles in the '50s they made perfect sense. ? Wanda Coleman, The Riot Inside Me: More Trials & Tremors tags: poetry 3 likes Like Thomas Hardy The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth cu rves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eat

en on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened college s presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called pr ose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men. ? Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure tags: architecture, buildings, poetry 3 likes Like Tadeusz Rzewicz They mutilate they torment each other with silences with words as if they had another life to live they do so as if they had forgotten that their bodies are inclined to death that the insides of men easily break down ruthless with each other they are weaker than plants and animals they can be killed by a word by a smile by a look ? Tadeusz Rzewicz tags: poetry 3 likes Like previous 1 2 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 All Quotes | My Quotes | Add A Quote

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