Poetry Quotes

O love, how did you get here?--Nick and the Candlestick

Sylvia Plath

Either all lights are turned off or one inner light is missing.

Dejan Stojanovic

Wer ein Theater füllen will, bedient sich der Dramaturgie. Um es zu leeren genügt Ideologie.

Oliver Hassencamp

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Dejan Stojanovic

The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of course, it being as much a surprise to me as it could be to anybody, for I did not know that it was in me. If any had asked me a single day before if it was in me, I should have told them frankly no, it was not.That is the way with us; we may go on half of our life not knowing such a thing is in us, when in reality it was there all the time, and all we needed was something to turn up that would call for it.

Mark Twain

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

Dejan Stojanovic

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

The South-wind bringsLife, sunshine and desire,And on every mount and meadowBreathes aromatic fire;But over the dead he has no power,The lost, the lost, he cannot restore;And, looking over the hills, I mournThe darling who shall not return.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

Manuel Puig

In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa

If there is passion, let me feel its heat.I want my heart to beat fast,my breath raspy, my skin to burn.

Susie Clevenger

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you --like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist --or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

Source Unknown

Poetry doesn't belong to those who write it, but to those who need it.

Source Unknown

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

Robert Morgan

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Paul Valery

...I wish I could tell the tale of your beauty as my rough hands caress your face...

John Geddes

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.

Amber Tamblyn

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry, but obviously, like everybody, I have a set of criteria for reading poems, and I'm not shy about presenting them, so if people ask for my critical response to a poem, I tell them what works and why, and what doesn't work and why.

Diane Wakoski

From whichever side I start, I think I am in an old place where others have been before me.

Dejan Stojanovic

yo te amo para comenzar a amarte,para recomenzar el infinitoy para no dejar de amarte nunca:por eso no te amo todavía.

Pablo Neruda