Life Poetry Quotes

Life Poetry Quote of the day

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life.

Have I had two roads, I would have chosen their third.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.

Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.

I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

Life is a poem most people never read.

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

Poetry is the harnessing of the paradox of earth cradling life and then entombing it.

Poetry is a necessity of life.

He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.

My life has been the poem I would have writ, But I could not both live and utter it.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

Poetry creates life; Science dissects death.

Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.

Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.

Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

No poem ever bought a hamburger, or not too many.

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

After one has abandoned a belief in God, poetry is that essence which takes its place as life's redemption.

there is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

Poetry gets to be the poetry of life by successfully becoming first the poetry of poetry.

Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of my life.

I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored.

So come to the pond, or the river of your imagination, or the harbor of your longing, and put your lips to the world.And live your life.

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.

Tingling fingers, morning birds, rain splatters on window pane, journals of fading escapades and laughter...

How long will you fake at living life? What will it take for you to see the beauty you've neglected while wearing the dirty lies expected of you?