Top Poetry Quotes

Poetry is the yearning of the soul to break free!

Your greatest dreams will always slumber within the vicious depths of fear.

Poetry Definition

(n.) The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.

(n.) Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry.

Dissociated, I follow this body in its reckless haste.

All my past heartache and pain suddenly made sense. That was who I would not be to the person who deserves the best of me.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

If an Artist falls in love with you, you will live forever.

I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.

They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.

Be aware of the high notes, of the blissful faces and their soft messages, and listen for the silent message of a highly decorated gift.

Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.

One clear moment, one of trance One missed step, one perfect dance One missed shot, one and only chance Life is all...but one fleeting glance.

Since when, he asked,

How rarely these few years, as work keeps up aloof,Or fares, or one thing or another,How we had days to spend under our parents' roof;Myself, my sister, and my brother.All five of us will die; to reck...

We have conversations most nights, Sylvia Plath and me. On these cold wintry nights with our coffee mugs in hand, we talk for hours and hours, Sylvia Plath and me!

Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open journals of closed memories... tears of laughter and joy of pain... schmaltz of diametric morning.

a silent night. - the most eloquent poem i have ever read.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Excuse me, I feel interrupted and I think I've overdose from the idea of loving you.

When true love broke my heart in half,I took the whiskey from the shelf,And told my neighbors when to laugh.I keep a dog, and bark myself.

Blood shall drop out of wood, and the stone shall give his voice, and the people shall be troubled: