Poetry Quotes

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.

Wanda Lea Brayton

Through the darkest hours of the nightand through the dreamers realm I seek,Far beyond the starry skyand beyond galaxies I am free.Through the grimmest memoriesand past a seasons air I cannot breathe,Far beyond this mortal worldin an afterlife we shall meet.

Lee Argus

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.

Matthew Arnold

tell all the truth but tell it slant

Emily Dickinson

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

Roman Payne

Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature.

Sappho

I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn.Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.

Susie Clevenger

How can love's spaciousnessbe conveyed in the narrowconfines of one syllable?

Diane Ackerman

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.

Dejan Stojanovic

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

truth is a friendthat asks for loyaltyand acceptancethen it enters our heartsdissolving the boundariesfreeing us from lonliness

Nirmala

I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.

Marc Norman

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

Karl Lagerfeld

While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.

Dejan Stojanovic

In this universe there are no time machines or keys that can turn hearts back around.

Sarah Tregay

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

Dejan Stojanovic

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. 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 barque, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

William Shakespeare

God is the perfect poet.

Robert Browning

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Karl Shapiro

Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.

Dejan Stojanovic