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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 1,531-1,560 of 3,000) Osip Mandelstam Where to start? Everything cracks and shakes, The air trembles with similes, No one world's better than another; the earth moans with metaphors. ? Osip Mandelstam, Selected Poems tags: metaphor, poetry, simile 19 likes Like If only you could have witnessed how much I have changed: sit alone in a disused theatre and feel what I have felt, see how the world has transformed me, like the metamorphosis of a caterpillar. ? Kiera Woodhull, Chaos of the Mind tags: changes, growing-up, independence, poetry 15 likes Like John Berryman I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but m ostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is pre sented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindne ss, that kind of thing. ? John Berryman tags: art, artists, beethoven, goya, literature, luck, milton, ordeals, poetry, titian 9 likes Like Santosh Kalwar Life is unbearable pain.

? Santosh Kalwar, Obscurity tags: life, pain, poetry 9 likes Like Where is my oasis? Too far from here for me to crawl with these dead legs, refusing to co-operate Hands and fingers clawing uselessly through the grains of sand... ? Kiera Woodhull, Chaos of the Mind tags: desert, imagination, poetry, struggle 7 likes Like T.S. Eliot Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree. ? T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems tags: poetry 7 likes Like Paul Auster The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself. ? Paul Auster, Moon Palace tags: fantasy, food, inspirational, money, moon-palace, peom, planet, poetry, sm elling 6 likes Like Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water. ? Norman MacCaig, The Poems of Norman MacCaig tags: poetry, scottish-poetry 6 likes Like Sun-struck, stuck in mid tropic strut, it sometimes stands as if considering how to cool avian plastic, dive into the mown lagoon of lawn; how take flight on dayglow flapdoodle wings, no matter if it is ball-bald going nowhere fast. ? Joyce Thomas, Skins: Poems tags: birds, flamingo, poetry, summer, whimsy 5 likes Like Stephen Dobyns One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is una ble to remain silent. ? Stephen Dobyns, Best Words, Best Order: Essays on Poetry tags: poetry 5 likes Like Paul Noug If words allow themselves to be handled, it is with the help of infinite carefuln ess. One has to welcome them, listen to the, before asking any service of them. Words are living things closely involved with human life. ? Paul Noug tags: language, poetry, words 5 likes Like Nancy Farmer I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns,

I drink up rivers to get at the hippos. Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great. I am she who tosses trees Instead of spears. The ostrich is my pillow And the elephant is my footstool! I am Nhamo Who makes the river my highway And sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds! ? Nancy Farmer, A Girl Named Disaster tags: jungle, poetry 5 likes Like the poet I saw once... but whose words have long been in my mind, windows of invincible candles... ? Nathalie Handal, The Neverfield: Poem tags: poetry 5 likes Like so easy to take leave from the scent from the hue simply to tuck a hand under one's head and fall asleep the wind will not awake one the bee will not caress one with its dark wings to give oneself to the earth so hugely as to become not anything and not anywhere ? Halina Poswiatowska. Polish poet. 1975. tags: inspirational, poetry, polish, poswiatowska 5 likes Like Santosh Kalwar Each and every words count. Each and every thoughts count. ? Santosh Kalwar, Obscurity tags: poetry 5 likes Like Christopher Pearse Cranch We are spirits clad in veils. ? Christopher Pearse Cranch tags: cranch, poetry, soul, spirit, spiritual, spiritual-wisdom, spirituality 4 likes Like Oscar Wilde With slouch and swing around the ring We trod the Fools Parade! We did not care: we knew we were The Devils Own Brigade: And shaven head and feet of lead Make a merry masquerade. ? Oscar Wilde tags: books, poetry 4 likes Like James Fenton It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses. It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist.

? James Fenton tags: destruction, poetry, war 4 likes Like Ralph Waldo Emerson Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dr eams ? Ralph Waldo Emerson tags: poetry 4 likes Like We remember though all the firelit glow Of a great hearth's gleam and glare, And we looked for a space at each happy face And the love that was written there. ? Caris Brooke tags: fire, firelight, fireplace, happiness, love, poetry 4 likes Like Jorge Antonio Renaud Prison Moon Four a.m. work duty and I begin my solitary trudge from outer compound to main building. A shivering guard, chilled in his lonely outpost, strip searches me until content that my inconsequential nudity. poses no threat and then whispers the secret code that allows me admittance into the open quarter-mile walkway. I chuff my way into another day as ice glints on the razor wire and the rifles note my numbed passage, silent but for my huffs and scuffle on the cracked, slippery sidewalk A new moon, veiled in wispy fog and beringed in glory, hangs over the prison, its gaudy glow taunting the halogen spotlights. The moon s creamy pull upsets some liquid equilibrium within me and like tides, wolves and all manner of madmen, I surrender disturbed by the certainty that under the bony luminescence of a grinning moon The lunar deliriums grip me and I howl--once, then again, and surely somewhere an unbound sleeper stirs, penitence is dying a giddy death. I shake myself sane and as the echoes hang in the frigid air I explain to the wild-eyed guard that convicts, like all animals under the leash, must bay at the beauty beyond them. ? Jorge Antonio Renaud tags: poetry 4 likes Like Elizabeth Berg How are poets able to unzip what they see around them, calling forth a truer esse nce from behind a common fact? Why, reading a verse about a pear, do you see pas t the fruit in so transcendent a way? ? Elizabeth Berg tags: poetry 4 likes Like Aberjhani How many fears came between us?

Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. --from The History Lesson ? Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love tags: fear, hope, inspiration, peace, poetry, romance, spirituality, war 4 likes Like Aberjhani History is a hermaphrodite with many distinguished lovers. We are neither mysteri es nor strangers but the living breath of revelation made flesh by the unrestrai ned desires of a free and universal love. Universal me. Universal you. --from Past Present and Future are One ? Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love tags: destiny, history, philosophy, poetry, spirituality, theories, universality 4 likes Like And when I stand in the receiving line like Jackie Kennedy without the pillbox hat, if Jackie were fat and had taken enough Klonopin to still an ox, and you whisper I think of you every day, don't finish with because I've been going to Weight Watchers on Tuesdays and wonder if you want to go too. ? Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno, Slamming tags: grief, poetry, what-not-to-say Santosh Kalwar I am republic I am maoist I am activist and I am this and I am that but why? Why can't; I be ? Santosh Kalwar, The Warrior tags: poetry 3 likes Like Robert Hass August is dust here. Drought stuns the road, but juice gathers in the berries. ? Robert Hass, Praise tags: poetry, poets 3 likes Like To delight the ear and the eye is a the soul. ? Egerton Brydges tags: poetry 3 likes Like Diana Abu-Jaber Consider the difference between the

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ike the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes. ? Diana Abu-Jaber, Crescent tags: poetry, point-of-view 3 likes Like Santosh Kalwar The answer to our existence lies in existence itself. ? Santosh Kalwar, The Warrior tags: poetry 3 likes Like previous 1 2 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 99 100 next All Quotes | My Quotes | Add A Quote

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