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Quotes About Poetry

Quotes tagged as "poetry" (showing 91-120 of 3,000)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Music is the universal language of mankind.”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: music, poetry, power-of-music 942 likes Like

E.E. Cummings

“listen: there’s a hell

of a good universe next door; let’s go”

― E.E. Cummings

tags: ee-cummings, poetry 914 likes Like

Saul Williams

“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not just lustful petting but transcendental metamorphosis when you became aware that the greatness of this being was breathing into you. Licking the sides and corners of your mouth, like sealing a thousand fleshy envelopes filled with the essence of your passionate being and then opened by the same mouth and delivered back to you, over and over again - the first kiss of the rest of your life. A kiss that confirms that the universe is aligned, that the world's greatest resource is love, and maybe even that God is a woman. With or without a belief in God, all kisses are metaphors decipherable by allocations of time, circumstance, and understanding”

― Saul Williams, , said the shotgun to the head.

tags: love, poetry, spirituality 882 likes Like

Pablo Neruda

“We the mortals touch the metals,

the wind, the ocean shores, the stones,

knowing they will go on, inert or burning,

and I was discovering, naming all the these things:

it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.”

― Pablo Neruda, Still Another Day

tags: pablo-neruda, poetry 750 likes Like

Dylan Thomas

“Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

tags: death-and-dying, inspirational, philosophy, poetry 750 likes Like

Dylan Thomas

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”

― Dylan Thomas

tags: art, poetry, writing 658 likes Like

Alfred Tennyson

“Though much is taken, much abides; and though

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

― Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems

tags: age, heroism, poetry, ulysses 652 likes Like

Daphne Gottlieb

“you can take this mouth

this wound you want

but you can't kiss

and make it

better.”

― Daphne Gottlieb, Why Things Burn

tags: marriage, passion, poetry, relationships, sex 582 likes Like

William Shakespeare

“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 bark,

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

(Sonnet 116)”

― William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets

tags: constancy, love, poetry, sacrifice 472 likes Like

Santosh Kalwar

“If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.”

― Santosh Kalwar

tags: eyes, joy, pain, poetry, share, smile, tears 466 likes Like

E.E. Cummings

“i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)”

― E.E. Cummings

tags: love, poetry 459 likes Like

Rainer Maria Rilke

“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.

This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple “I must,” then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature. Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose...

...Describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty - describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world’s sounds – wouldn’t you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. - And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not. Nor will you try to interest magazines in these works: for you will see them as your dear natural possession, a piece of your life, a voice from it. A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: act-of-creation, art, creativity, inspirational, poetry, writing 453 likes Like

Jasper Fforde

“Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.”

― Jasper Fforde, First Among Sequels

tags: humor, poetry 442 likes Like

William Shakespeare

“O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!

Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?

Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: death, hate, love, poetry, shakespeare 425 likes Like

George Eliot

“O may I join the choir invisible

Of those immortal dead who live again

In minds made better by their presence; live

In pulses stirred to generosity,

In deeds of daring rectitude...”

― George Eliot, O May I Join the Choir Invisible! And Other Favourite Poems

tags: choir, dead, invisible, memory, minds, poetry, rectitude 416 likes Like

Matthew Arnold

“Ah, love, let us be true

To one another! for the world, which seems

To lie before us like a land of dreams,

So various, so beautiful, so new,

Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,

Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

And we are here as on a darkling plain

Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,

Where ignorant armies clash by night.”

― Matthew Arnold, Dover Beach and Other Poems

tags: hope, love, pain, poetry, truth 411 likes Like

John Keats

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

― John Keats

tags: environment, nature, poetry 410 likes Like

Jarod Kintz

“I want to create a seventeen-syllable word that encompasses the human condition, and then use that word to form the world’s most perfect haiku.”

― Jarod Kintz, I Want

tags: haiku, humanity, life, perfection, poetry, relationships, words, writing 393 likes Like

Charles Bukowski

“some moments are nice, some are

nicer, some are even worth

writing

about.”

― Charles Bukowski, War All the Time

tags: bukowski, love, moments, nice, poetry, war-all-the-time, writing 392 likes Like

Robert Frost

“The heart can think of no devotion

Greater than being shore to the ocean-

Holding the curve of one position,

Counting an endless repetition.”

― Robert Frost

tags: devotion, love, poetry 392 likes Like

“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;

I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

― Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse

tags: poetry, science, stars 386 likes Like

Criss Jami

“Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.”

― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: adventure, adventures, alone, alone-time, aloneness, anti-social, antisocial, art, artist, artistic, astronomical, astronomy, author, bound, boundaries, boundless, boundlessness, commit, commitment, committed, composer, composition, confinement, contemplate, contemplation, contemplations, creative, creativity, daydream, daydreamer, daydreamers, daydreaming, daydreams, deep, deep-thoughts, determination, determined, dimension, dimensional, dimensions, discovery, dream, dreamer, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, ecstasy, exploration, explore, exploring, fantasy, fascination, free, freedom, fun, genius, gift, gifted, great, imagination, imagine, imprison, imprisoned, imprisonment, incarcerated, incarceration, independence, independent, individual, individuality, intellect, intellects, intellectual, intelligence, intelligent, interest, introspect, introspection, introspective, introversion, introvert, introverts, jail, jailed, journey, knowledge, larger, larger-than-life, life, lone, loneliness, lonely, loner, lyricist, lyrics, mentality, mind, mind-power, missing, missing-out, music, musician, mystic, mystical, mysticism, natural, otherworld, otherworldly, party, people, perception, personal, perspective, philosophical, philosophy, poem, poet, poetic, poetry, power, power-of-thoughts, powerful-mind, prison, psychological, psychology, read, reader, reading, real, reality, realization, reflect, reflection, reflections, rest, room, science, scientific, self, self-reliable, self-reliance, self-reliant, self-sufficient, sleep, sleeping, smart, smartness, social, solitary, solitary-confinement, solitude, songwriting, spirit, spiritual, spirituality, supernatural, theological, theology, theorizing, theory, thinker, thinking, thinking-of-a-great-mind, thought, thoughts, time, timeless, timelessness, unbound, universal, universe, wisdom, wise, wonder, wonderful, world, write, writer, writing 376 likes Like

T.S. Eliot

“We are the hollow men

We are the stuffed men

Leaning together

Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!

Our dried voices, when

We whisper together

Are quiet and meaningless

As wind in dry grass

Or rats' feet over broken glass

In our dry cellar

Shape without form, shade without colour,

Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

- The Hollow Men”

― T.S. Eliot, Poems: 1909-1925

tags: philosophy, poetry 368 likes Like

E.E. Cummings

“nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals

the power of your intense fragility:whose texture

compels me with the colour of its countries,

rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes

and opens;only something in me understands

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)

nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands

-excerpt of #35 from "100 Selected Poems”

― E.E. Cummings

tags: poetry 364 likes Like

Gustave Flaubert

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

― Gustave Flaubert

tags: life, poetry 361 likes Like

John Green

“So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay.

-- Robert Frost”

― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

tags: color, poetry 356 likes Like

Pablo Neruda

“I hunger for your sleek laugh and your hands the color of a furious harvest. I want to eat the sunbeams flaring in your beauty.”

― Pablo Neruda

tags: lust, poetry 355 likes Like

Rumi

“The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you

Don't go back to sleep!

You must ask for what you really want.

Don't go back to sleep!

People are going back and forth

across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,

The door is round and open

Don't go back to sleep!”

― Rumi

tags: poetry 353 likes Like

T.S. Eliot

“Time for you and time for me,

And time yet for a hundred indecisions,

And for a hundred visions and revisions,

Before the taking of a toast and tea.”

― T.S. Eliot

tags: poetry 332 likes Like

Emily Dickinson

“There is no Frigate like a Book

To take us Lands away,

Nor any Coursers like a Page

Of prancing Poetry –

This Traverse may the poorest take

Without oppress of Toll –

How frugal is the Chariot

That bears a Human soul.”

― Emily Dickinson

tags: books, literature, poetry, reading, words 310 likes Like

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