Top Poetry Quotes

There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection.

We're only lucky enough to see the wonders of nature's canyons because they're gracious enough to show us the places they've been damaged.

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.

Lie with me Lie to me not!

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day,he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed, but woke the next morningelated for another try.

To say more while saying less is the secret of being simple.

Art is apotheosis; often, the complaint of beauty.

Some women marry houses.

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one...

Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.

Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.

Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself.

~Tonight's Sea~Meet me by the sea, Under the stars. Where we can gaze With our hearts. Today, I am restless, Waiting for tonight's meet. I cannot believe how endlessThese hours can be. I hope the cons...

The things you let go will someday teach you how to fly.

I wanted nothing more than her attention. Her thoughts filled with me. Her eyes lost in my image. I wanted her so badly I didn't even realize I lost myself in the process. Now, when I look in the mirr...

HEARTWORKEach day is born with a sunriseand ends in a sunset, the same way weopen our eyes to see the light, and close them to hear the dark.You have no control overhow your story begins or ends.But b...

I have fallen,for your words.They are like,a gossamer cobweb,I have been,embroiled,decoyed,snared into!Incapacitated.I fail to escape.I fail to liberate.Your words,didn't redeem,made me a,captive inst...

Not much more than a broke disgrace who's hooked on tonics, so excuse him if his poker face has puke on it.

Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.

My highest aspiration in life is to serve as the Limerick Laureate of Nantucket.

A song rises up from the belly of my pastand rocks me in the bosom of buried memories.