Poetry Quotes

What we call life is only talk of nature.

Dejan Stojanovic

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea.Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.

Antonio Machado

Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

Dejan Stojanovic

...before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ...

John Geddes

Neither pathway is correct.

Aazam Yaqoob

Sufilere sohbet gerek Ahilere ahret gerek Mecnunlara Leyla gerek Bana seni gerek seni

Yunus Emre

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

My poetry is exacting a confession from me: I will not keep the truth from my song and the heartstringed instrument.

Frank Chipasula

I now know how your angercame from skeletonsthat rattled in your heartand you couldn't escape them.

Susie Clevenger

Going down in history is a dead end pursuit

Benny Bellamacina

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood, That scarlet tree within, which has the power To make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

Osbert Sitwell

A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?

Margaret Atwood

Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate.

John Denham

...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...

John Geddes

The worm doth woo the mortal, death claims a living bride, Night unto day is married, morn unto eventide, Earth a merry damsel, and heaven a knight so true,And Earth is quite coquettish, and beseemeth in vain to sue.

Emily Dickinson

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What are deep? the ocean and truth.

Christina Rossetti

To sense the peace of extinguished passionHappiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge

Dejan Stojanovic

There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

BeautyIs the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic.If, after severalApplications, you do not findRelief, consult your family physician

Robert Penn Warren

A certain person wondered whya big strong girl like mewouldn't keep a jobwhich paid a normal salary.I took my time to lead herand to read her every page.Even minimal peoplecan't survive on minimal wage.A certain person wondered whyI wait all week for you.I didn't have the wordsto describe just what you do.I said you had the motionof the ocean in your walk,and when you solve my riddlesyou don't even have to talk.

Maya Angelou