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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 1,411-1,440 of 3,000) Philip Larkin Poetry is nobody s business except the poet s, and everybody else can fuck off. ? Philip Larkin tags: poetry 33 likes Like Dorothy Parker Little Words When you are gone, there is nor bloom nor leaf, Nor singing sea at night, nor silver birds; And I can only stare, and shape my grief In little words. I cannot conjure loveliness, to drown The bitter woe that racks my cords apart. The weary pen that sets my sorrow down Feeds at my heart. There is no mercy in the shifting year, No beauty wraps me tenderly about. I turn to little words- so you, my dear, Can spell them out. ? Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker tags: humor, poetry 18 likes Like ????? ????? ????? ???? ??????? ?? ???? ????? ??? ??? ???? ? ????? ?????, ???? ??? ??? ???? tags: poetry 15 likes Like

Compaera usted sabe que puede contar conmigo no hasta dos o hasta diez sino contar conmigo si alguna vez advierte que la miro a los ojos y una veta de amor reconoce en los mos no alerte sus fusiles ni piense qu delirio a pesar de la veta o tal vez porque existe usted puede contar conmigo si otras veces me encuentra hurao sin motivo no piense qu flojera igual puede contar conmigo pero hagamos un trato yo quisiera contar con usted es tan lindo saber que usted existe uno se siente vivo y cuando digo esto quiero decir contar aunque sea hasta dos aunque sea hasta cinco no ya para que acuda presurosa en mi auxilio sino para saber a ciencia cierta que usted sabe que puede contar conmigo ? Mario Benedetti Hagamos un trato tags: contar-conmigo, love, poem, poetry, trust 14 likes Like Jean Cocteau Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tea rs in exchange for these axes, these muzzles, these unicorns, these torches, the se towers, these martlets, these seedlings of stars and these fields of blue! ? Jean Cocteau tags: blood, poem, poetry 14 likes Like Carol Ann Duffy ANNE HATHAWAY The bed we loved in was a spinning world of forests, castles, torchlight, clifftops, seas where we would dive for pearls. My lover s words were shooting stars which fell to earth as kisses on these lips; my body now a softer rhyme

to his, now echo, assonance; his touch a verb dancing in the centre of a noun. Some nights, I dreamed he d written me, the bed a page beneath his writer s hands. Romance and drama played by touch, by scent, by taste. In the other bed, the best, our guests dozed on, dribbling their prose. My living laughing love I hold him in the casket of my widow s head as he held me upon that next best bed. ? Carol Ann Duffy, The World's Wife tags: death, love, passion, poetry 9 likes Like Pierre de Ronsard Haleine contre haleine, chauffe-moi la vie, Mille et mille baisers donne-moi je te prie, Amour veut tout sans nombre, amour n a point de loi Translated: Breath against breath warms my life. A thousand kisses give me I pray thee. Love says it all without number, love knows no law. ? Pierre de Ronsard tags: french, love, poetry 9 likes Like H.P. Lovecraft I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same. ? H.P. Lovecraft, Old Bugs tags: experience, knowledge, life, poetry 8 likes Like Li-Young Lee Brimming. That's what it is, I want to get to a place where my sentences enact br imming. ? Li-Young Lee, Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee tags: poetry 8 likes Like Jane Yolen In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author s life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional po etry but in other poetry as well, the poet is not writing characters so much as emotional truth wrapped in metaphor. Bam! Pow! A shot to the gut. ? Jane Yolen tags: books, emotion, fiction, poems, poetry, reading 7 likes Like Tachibana Higuchi My house burned down But anyway, it was after The flower petals had already fallen ? Tachibana Higuchi tags: poetry 7 likes Like Rainer Maria Rilke Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly roads, which travel along themselves. That has learned to walk upon water when it scoops, that walks upon wells, transfiguring every path. That steps into other hands, changes those that are like it into a landscape: wanders and arrives within them, fills them with arrival.

? Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry tags: adorable, companionship, palm, poetry 7 likes Like A.S. Byatt Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the so n and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on fire light evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importa nce and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any con fidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis s comments on them, and burned them. ? A.S. Byatt, Possession tags: conficence, craft, literature, poetry, self-confidence, skill, writing 6 l ikes Like Robert Herrick Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. ? Robert Herrick tags: life, living, poetry, time