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Quotes About Poetry

Quotes tagged as "poetry" (showing 31-60 of 3,000)

Shel Silverstein

“If you are a dreamer come in

If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar

A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer

If youre a pretender com sit by my fire

For we have some flax golden tales to spin

Come in!

Come in!”

― Shel Silverstein

tags: dreamer, imagination, liar, make-believe, poetry, wisher, wishes 2652 likes Like

Mary Oliver

“You do not have to be good.

You do not have to walk on your knees

for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.

You only have to let the soft animal of your body

love what it loves.

Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.

Meanwhile the world goes on.

Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain

are moving across the landscapes,

over the prairies and the deep trees,

the mountains and the rivers.

Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,

are heading home again.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,

the world offers itself to your imagination,

calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –

over and over announcing your place

in the family of things.”

― Mary Oliver

tags: beauty, birds, nature, poetry, shore, woods 1807 likes Like

Charles Baudelaire

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

― Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing 1662 likes Like

T.S. Eliot

“This is the way the world ends

Not with a bang but a whimper.”

― T.S. Eliot

tags: apocalypse, despair, poetry 1568 likes Like

Kobayashi Issa

“What a strange thing!

to be alive

beneath cherry blossoms.”

― Kobayashi Issa, Poems

tags: blossoms, cherry-blossoms, haiku, japan, life, poetry, spring 1563 likes Like

Sylvia Plath

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;

I lift my eyes and all is born again.”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: poetry 1512 likes Like

Robert Frost

“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.”

― Robert Frost


Charles Bukowski

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”

― Charles Bukowski


W.H. Auden

“Poetry might be defined as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”

― W.H. Auden, New Year Letter


Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.”

― Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Americus, Book I


J.R.R. Tolkien

“Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go

To heal my heart and drown my woe

Rain may fall, and wind may blow

And many miles be still to go

But under a tall tree will I lie

And let the clouds go sailing by”

― J.R.R. Tolkien

tags: drinking, liquor, poetry, sadness 1321 likes Like

William Shakespeare

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove.

O no, it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wand'ring barque,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come;

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.”

― William Shakespeare, Great Sonnets

tags: love, poetry, shakespeare 1312 likes Like

Rick Riordan

“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”

― Rick Riordan

tags: art, artist, painting, poem, poet, poetry 1311 likes Like

Kobayashi Issa

“Summer night--

even the stars

are whispering to each other.”

― Kobayashi Issa


Charles Baudelaire

“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.”

― Charles Baudelaire

tags: drunk, poetry, virtue, wine 1232 likes Like

Lemony Snicket

“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn't hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.”

― Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope


Shel Silverstein

“The Little Boy and the Old Man

Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon."

Said the old man, "I do that too."

The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants."

I do that too," laughed the little old man.

Said the little boy, "I often cry."

The old man nodded, "So do I."

But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems

Grown-ups don't pay attention to me."

And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand.

I know what you mean," said the little old man.”

― Shel Silverstein

tags: humor, old-age, poetry, youth 1096 likes Like

E.E. Cummings

“Lovers alone wear sunlight.”

― E.E. Cummings

tags: adoration, love, poetry 1092 likes Like

E.E. Cummings

“i like my body when it is with your

body. It is so quite new a thing.

Muscles better and nerves more.

i like your body. i like what it does,

i like its hows. i like to feel the spine

of your body and its bones, and the trembling

-firm-smooth ness and which i will

again and again and again

kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,

i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz

of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes

over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill

of under me you so quite new.”

― E.E. Cummings

tags: love, poetry 1063 likes Like

T.S. Eliot

“We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.”

― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

tags: life-experience, poetry, self-discovery, wisdom 1037 likes Like

Theodore Roethke

“Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries.”

― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

tags: life, poetry 1035 likes Like

T.S. Eliot

“Do I dare

Disturb the universe?

In a minute there is time

For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”

― T.S. Eliot

tags: life, poetry 966 likes Like

William Shakespeare

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”

― William Shakespeare

tags: as-you-like-it, celia, nature, poetry 939 likes Like

Pablo Neruda

“Love.

Because of you, in gardens of blossoming

Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring.

I have forgotten your face, I no longer

Remember your hands; how did your lips

Feel on mine?

Because of you, I love the white statues

Drowsing in the parks, the white statues that

Have neither voice nor sight.

I have forgotten your voice, your happy voice;

I have forgotten your eyes.

Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to

My vague memory of you. I live with pain

That is like a wound; if you touch me, you will

Make to me an irreperable harm.

Your caresses enfold me, like climbing

Vines on melancholy walls.

I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to

Glimpse you in every window.

Because of you, the heady perfumes of

Summer pain me; because of you, I again

Seek out the signs that precipitate desires:

Shooting stars, falling objects.”

― Pablo Neruda


Gwendolyn Brooks

“Live not for Battles Won.

Live not for The-End-of-the-Song.

Live in the along.”

― Gwendolyn Brooks, Report from Part One

tags: battles, living, poetry 907 likes Like

J.R.R. Tolkien

“Far over the misty mountains cold

To dungeons deep and caverns old

We must away ere break of day

To seek the pale enchanted gold.

The dwarves of yore made mighty spells,

While hammers fell like ringing bells

In places deep, where dark things sleep,

In hollow halls beneath the fells.

For ancient king and elvish lord

There many a gleaming golden hoard

They shaped and wrought, and light they caught

To hide in gems on hilt of sword.

On silver necklaces they strung

The flowering stars, on crowns they hung

The dragon-fire, in twisted wire

They meshed the light of moon and sun.

Far over the misty mountains cold

To dungeons deep and caverns old

We must away, ere break of day,

To claim our long-forgotten gold.

Goblets they carved there for themselves

And harps of gold; where no man delves

There lay they long, and many a song

Was sung unheard by men or elves.

The pines were roaring on the height,

The wind was moaning in the night.

The fire was red, it flaming spread;

The trees like torches blazed with light.

The bells were ringing in the dale

And men looked up with faces pale;

The dragon's ire more fierce than fire

Laid low their towers and houses frail.

The mountain smoked beneath the moon;

The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom.

They fled their hall to dying fall

Beneath his feet, beneath the moon.

Far over the misty mountains grim

To dungeons deep and caverns dim

We must away, ere break of day,

To win our harps and gold from him!”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

tags: dwarves, poetry, song 882 likes Like

Virginia Woolf

“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

tags: anonymous, poetry, woman 872 likes Like

W.S. Merwin

“Separation

Your absence has gone through me

Like thread through a needle.

Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

― W.S. Merwin

tags: influence, loneliness, loss, poetry 840 likes Like

Mary Oliver

“to live in this world

you must be able

to do three things

to love what is mortal;

to hold it

against your bones knowing

your own life depends on it;

and, when the time comes to let it go,

to let it go”

― Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1

tags: excerpt-from-in-blackwater-woods, poem, poetry 814 likes Like

William Shakespeare

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet


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