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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 1,501-1,530 of 3,000) From love's plectrum arises the song of the string of life Love is the light of life love is the fire of life ? Allama Muhammad Iqbal tags: iqbal, light, love, poetry 19 likes Like Philip Larkin Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession. ? Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica tags: letters, letters-to-monica, philip-larkin, poetry, writing 16 likes Like Muriel Rukeyser breathe in experience breathe out poetry ? Muriel Rukeyser tags: life, poetry 14 likes Like Fernando Pessoa We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong. ? Fernando Pessoa tags: dreams, duality, life, poetry, thoughts 12 likes Like George Gordon Byron Sorrow is knowledge: They who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the tree of knowledge is not that of life. ? George Gordon Byron tags: poetry 11 likes Like Atarah L. Poling

Within my reflection I see tears, for what I see is the truth, are my greatest fe ars. ? Atarah L. Poling, Hidden Light tags: poetry, poetry-of-life, poetry-quotes 11 likes Like Let them shoot us in the head, My blood will grow roots and will blossom. ? Visar Zhiti, The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry tags: creativity, oppression, poetry, tyranny 10 likes Like Philip Larkin There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true! ? Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica tags: authors, letters, letters-to-monica, philip-larkin, poems, poet, poetry, w riting 10 likes Like Aberjhani Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another . ? Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love tags: 21st-century-authors, eternity, famous-authors, famous-quotes, metaphysics , philosophy, poetry, reality, spirituality, the-soul, time 10 likes Like And I choose to be alone Rather than wrapped in arms I could never need. ? Merrit Malloy tags: poetry 9 likes Like James Broughton It was as important to live poetically as to write poems. ? James Broughton tags: poetry 9 likes Like Philip Larkin Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres. ? Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica tags: letters, letters-to-monica, poet, poetry, writing, youth 8 likes Like Robert Hass The first fact of the world is that it repeats itself. I had been taught to belie ve that the freshness of children lay in their capacity for wonder at the vividn ess and strangeness of the particular, but what is fresh in them is that they st ill experience the power of repetition, from which our first sense of the power of mastery comes. Though predictable is an ugly little world in daily life, in o ur first experience of it we are clued to the hope of a shapeliness in things. T o see that power working on adults, you have to catch them out: the look of fool ish happiness on the faces of people who have just sat down to dinner is their k nowledge that dinner will be served. Probably, that is the psychological basis f or the power and the necessity of artistic form...Maybe our first experience of form is the experience of our own formation...And I am not thinking mainly of po ems about form; I m thinking of the form of a poem, the shape of its understanding . The presence of that shaping constitutes the presence of poetry. ? Robert Hass tags: form, poetry, writers-on-writing 7 likes Like Sappho ]Sardis often turning her thoughts here ] you like a goddess and in your song most of all she rejoiced. But now she is conspicuous among Lydian women

as sometimes at sunset the rosyfingered moon surpasses all the stars. And her light stretches over salt sea equally and flowerdeep fields. And the beautiful dew is poured out and roses bloom and frail chervil and flowering sweetclover. But she goes back and forth remembering gentle Atthis and in longing she bites her tender mind ? Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho tags: beauty, imagery, poetry 7 likes Like Orson Scott Card someone's sent a loving note in lines of returning geese and as the moon fills my western chamber as petals dance over the flowing stream again I think of you the two of us living a sadness apart a hurt that can't be removed yet when my gaze comes down my heart stays up ? Orson Scott Card, Xenocide tags: love, poetry 6 likes Like ... unfools of unbeing ... means quite clearly people who are too stereotyped to be eccentric people who are too dead spiritually to exist at all and who call al ive individual fools ? Norman Friedman, E.E. Cummings: The Art of His Poetry tags: individuals, poetry, spirituality, stereotypes 6 likes Like F. Scott Fitzgerald Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big esta tes near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pool s, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starl ight and rain. ? F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise tags: poetry, romance 6 likes Like Sappho ]sing to us the one with violets in her lap ]mostly ]goes astray ? Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho tags: beauty, imagery, poetry 6 likes Like Arthur Rimbaud L'aube exalte ainsi qu'un peuple de colombes, et j'ai vu quelquefois ce que l'homm e a cru voir! (And dawn, exalted like a host of doves - and then I've seen what men believe th ey've seen!) ? Arthur Rimbaud

tags: poetry 5 likes Like Rosa Sophia I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst complimen t I've ever gotten. ? Rosa Sophia tags: humor, poetry, thoughtful 5 likes Like I can speak of you now to anyone because I ve stopped wanting anything like what I once wanted from you. ? Carol Guess, Tinderbox Lawn tags: carol-guess, poetry 5 likes Like Philip Larkin Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) b etween the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP. ? Philip Larkin tags: poetry, sex 5 likes Like Louisa May Alcott wisely mingled poetry and prose. ? Louisa May Alcott, Little Women tags: little-women, louisa-may-alcott, poetry, prose 4 likes Like Margarita Engle If we knew how to find the lost, we would know how to rediscover the parts of our minds left behind in battle. ? Margarita Engle, The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba's Struggle for Freedom tags: margarita-engle, poetry, the-surrender-tree, war 3 likes Like The secret to life is to live as though you know the secret." Barbara Botch ? Barbara Botch, Poet's Crossing tags: inspirational, poetry 3 likes Like The poet is intimate with truth, while the scientist approaches awkwardly. ? Paramhansa Yogananda tags: poetry, science, spiritual 3 likes Like Nate Spears Live for everything, or die for nothing ? Nate Spears tags: nate-spears, passage, poet, poetry, quote 3 likes Like Take away love and our earth is a tomb. ? Dave Browning, Deliberate Simplicity: How the Church Does More by Doing Less tags: literature, love, optimism, poetry 3 likes Like Living is the opposite of poetry. Poetry is the recollection of living, or, more often than not, the lament of having not lived. Or worse yet, merely the contemp lation of living. My advice to you, Ms. Harper, is this: Live. And keep living. And never stop to look back to write about what you have lived and observed and overcome, lest you turn into a pillar of salt. This desert life is already full of such monoliths. ? P.S. Baber, Cassie Draws the Universe tags: life, living, poetry 3 likes Like Raegan Butcher bad breath and butt smell; that is prison, in a nutshell. ? Raegan Butcher, Rusty String Quartet tags: humor, poetry, prison, prisoners 3 likes Like previous 1 2 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 99 100 next All Quotes | My Quotes | Add A Quote

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