Top Poetry Quotes

Dream by making and make by dreaming.

Sadness is an invitation to God.

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.

It were better that we were not at all, than that we should live still in wickedness, and to suffer, and not to know wherefore.

If the most High grant thee to live, thou shall see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:

I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture, but they always melt li...

Poetry is a wild water that flows as furious river from "spring" in the summer.

How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?

I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire.Another life is never safely envied.

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

Rational intelligence is dangerous and leads to ratiocination. The painter is a medium who doesn't realize what he is doing. No translation can express the mystery of sensibility, a word, still unreli...

I do not blame himfor not knowing the gentleness of my soul.When I only showed him,how violently I loved.

A black cat among roses,phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon,the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still.It is dazed with moonlight,contented with perfume...

History will be erased in the universal purgatory.

Everything is connected. We see the signs every moment. There are miracles waiting to happen!

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.Tell me about des...

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

He'd been let down so oftenHis brow was on the floorBut then they foundA small hole in the groundAnd let him down some more

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.