Poetry Quotes

However, I learned something. I thought that if the young person, the student, has poetry in him or her, to offer them help is like offering a propeller to a bird.

Norman MacCaig

Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.

Dejan Stojanovic

I don't tolerate politics that come from anger. I want a politics derived from beauty... I don't admire politicians, but poets. (Rubem Alves, p. 189)

Mev Puleo

Nature is an outcry, unpolished truth; the art a euphemism tamed wilderness.

Dejan Stojanovic

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.

Santosh Kalwar

To a poet nothing can be useless

Samuel Johnson

Women Are Not RosesWomen have no beginningonly continualflows.Though rivers flowwomen are notrivers.Women are notrosesthey are not oceansor stars.i would like to tellher this buti think shealready knows.

Ana Castillo

Give a poet a pen

A. Jarrell Hayes

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

Margaret Walker

From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch's crimeOh I lied, it hasn't happened yetBut bet you better believe it's such a habit thatI just said that in a past mindset

Criss Jami

Love is almost never simple.

Dejan Stojanovic

Nothing is made, nothing disappears. The same changes, at the same places, never stopping.

Dejan Stojanovic

On the shining yards of heavenSee a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beautyAre the masters of the world.

Bliss Carman

Every word was once a poem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain.

Dejan Stojanovic

I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too.

John Stuart Mill

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

George Oppen

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Lionel Trilling

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

Henry David Thoreau

Jen's Mum Will WriteJen's mum writes advertising copy.She specializes in white goods:washing machines, dryers, fridges,freezers, dishwashers.She hates these applianceshulkingin corners,power-hungry and fractious.One day, she will have a wood stove,and she'll write about things that matter-she will write about birth and death,about love and the absence of love,about fathers and children,about mothers and daughters,about lovers and friends.She'll write about the whole goddamnwonderful, awful businessof loving and being loved

Margaret Wild