Top Poetry Quotes

And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking...

A picture in a book, a lynching. The bland faces of men who watcha Christ go up in flames, smiling,as if he were a hookedfish, a felled antelope, some wild thing tied to boards and burned.His charred...

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.

When I touch you, it makes me trembling.I feel like I've lost myself, existentially.Your lips on mine makes me feel likeI'm flying across the universe, without aimlessly.

No reason for a feverish rush For we will all arrive in the same place At the right time. Justice will be served. There will be no better or worse, No big and small, no rewards, no punishment, No guil...

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

Come, let us speak with our bodies.Teach me how to please you.I am here to learn.Let us not waste this time.It is the hour of union.ComeAnd after you do,Come again.

The forgiveness of God flows through me and because I am forgiven, I can forgive.

Live for everything, or die for nothing

Language is fossil Poetry.

Souls grow on bones but die beneath bankers' hours...

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

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:

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.

No baby, you didn't hurt me. You wrecked me. Know the difference.

Sacred space in whichTo distil, like amber,The best of your love.

Share your dreams and they will be inspired. Plant seeds of knowledge and they will grow and reproduce beyond measure.

Pretense cannot sustain blind power.

I write, write and write but I can't find words that define what I feel inside.