Poetry Quotes

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

Resist much, obey little.

Some hae meat and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it, But we hae meat and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit.

For every poet it is always morning in the world; history a forgotten, insomniac night. The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world in spite of history.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak.

Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole.

Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold.

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

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

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore.

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

When the tea is brought at five o'clock And all the neat curtains are drawn with care, The little black cat with bright green eyes Is suddenly purring there.

Whatever is not stone is light

Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.

I write lyrics everyday as I go. I'm always taking notes in my phone whenever I am inspired by something. Most of my writing starts out as poetry before I put it into songs.

Silence is a sounding thing, To one who listens hungrily

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.

Every poem should remind the reader that they are going to die.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

God is the very creative energy of existence - creativity rather than a creator. He is not the poet but the poetry, not the dancer but the dance, not the flower but the fragrance.

On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.

They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.

We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a responsibility to awe.

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

Everyone lives by selling something.

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

Let no-one say the past is dead, the past is all about us and within.

I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.