Poetry Quotes

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above.

Fernando Pessoa

Laura remarked that science was dependent upon poetry, that all scientific description was metaphoric.

Anne Rice

I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head it was journals and poetry. So I passed on their offer. I told my agent this is our vision, and no one's done it this way.

Kenny Loggins

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.

Macklemore

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet especially not against their poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Cuando uno se enamora las cuadrillasdel tiempo hacen escala en el olvidola desdicha se llena de milagrosel miedo se convierte en osadíay la muerte no sale de su cuevaenamorarse es un presagio gratisuna ventana abierta al árbol nuevouna proeza de los sentimientosuna bonanza casi insoportabley un ejercicio contra el infortuniopor el contrario desenamorarsees ver el cuerpo como es y nocomo la otra mirada lo inventabaes regresar más pobre al viejo enigmay dar con la tristeza en el espejo

Mario Benedetti Enamorarse y no

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility.

Dejan Stojanovic

If I knew what to doI'd do more than write a song for you

Criss Jami

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

Dejan Stojanovic

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

Dejan Stojanovic

There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.

Oscar Wilde

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

Rita Dove

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

William Shakespeare

Love what is simple and beautiful. These are the essentials.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

Fred Durst

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

William Shenstone

If death is like a sonnet then life would be a haiku. The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic with the last breath~ love, words fading and floating off into the abyss that is space whilst our everyday lives or days more important than normal become just a mere whisper in only a few short syllables through which we convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment briefly.

R.M. Engelhardt

To feel greatly, and understand greatly, and express greatly, the naturalBeauty, is the sole business of poetry.The rest's diversion: those holy or noble sentiments, the intricate ideas,The love, lust, longing: reasons, but not the reason.

Robinson Jeffers

Nor do we merely feel these essences for one short hour no, even as these trees that whisper round a temple become soon dear as the temples self, so does the moon, the passion posey, glories infinite, Haunt us till they become a cheering light unto our souls and bound to us so fast, that wheather there be shine, or gloom o'er cast, They always must be with us, or we die.

John Keats