Top Poetry Quotes

In time, he began to see the details that held us like invisible stitches together. The scars we held within, the tears despite our dry faces. He saw the little sigh that came with the song. The way o...

The more formidable the contradiction between inexhaustible life-joy and inevitable fate, the greater the longing which reveals itself in the kingdom of poetry and in the self-created world of dreams...

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.

The Everlasting Staircase"Jeffrey McDanielWhen the call came, saying twenty-four hours to live,my first thought was: can't she postpone her exitfrom this planet for a week? I've got places to do,peopl...

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

Some women marry houses.

Lie with me Lie to me not!

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

She's an array of undiscovered words, of feeling beyond my threshold. I'm just a man, trying to hold himself together in her wake.

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

Education is liberation, knowledge is power.

She was an echo masquerading as a shadow and she followed me just the same. The night and its moon were her favor while the sunrise and sunlight the daggers that sliced her to ribbons. She looked thro...

Carry out your literary dream, no matter how unlikely it may seem...

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

I am bothered by poems I don't understand.

Sometimes my helpless blood runs numb and, if only for a second, I forget how frail bones can be.

Our bodies are made of supernova dust, the epitome of ultimate destruction and shatter. And though we are whole, beings with bodies and souls, with cosmos in our eyes and black heart holes, we love as...

I shivered in thosesolitudeswhen I heardthe voiceofthe saltin the desert.

A poet has to be a bit childlike at heart, and in that sense all the romantic stereotypes about poets being "eternal children", etc, are all accurate. They believe, whatever they may say, that art and...

And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life.