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and discussion search Home My Books Groups Recommendations genres listopia giveaways popular goodreads voice ebooks fun trivia quizzes quotes community creative writing people events Explore quote Quotes About Poetry Quotes tagged as "poetry" (showing 691-720 of 3,000) Roman Payne I like the posture, but not the yoga. I like the inebriated morning, but not the opium. I like the flower but not the garden, the moment but not the dream. Quiet, my love. Be still. I am sleeping. ? Roman Payne tags: dreams, flower, garden, love, moments, morning, opium, payne, poetry, post ure, quietness, roman, silence, sleep, yoga 59 likes Like Jean Cocteau The poet doesn't invent. He listens. ? Jean Cocteau tags: poetry 42 likes Like Emily Dickinson There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any coursers like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! ? Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems tags: books-reading, poetry 41 likes Like Rainer Maria Rilke I don t want to stand before you like a thing, shrewd, secretive. I want my own will, and I want simply to be with my will, as it goes toward action. And in the silent, sometimes hardly moving times, when something is coming near,

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. I want to unfold. I don t want to be folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie. ? Rainer Maria Rilke tags: poetry, secrets, self, truth 40 likes Like Ted Hughes The inmost spirit of poetry, in other words, is at bottom, in every recorded case , the voice of pain and the physical body, so to speak, of poetry, is the treatm ent by which the poet tries to reconcile that pain with the world. ? Ted Hughes tags: pain, poetry 38 likes Like John Donne Love's mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book. ? John Donne, The Complete English Poems tags: body, love, poetry, sexuality, soul 36 likes Like Lawrence Ferlinghetti We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry read ings. ? Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Wild Dreams of a New Beginning tags: humor, paraphrased, poetry 35 likes Like Graham Chapman McGough: I'm sorry. I'm afraid I've caught poetry. Mr Bones: Oh really? Well, don't worry, sir - I used to suffer from short storie s. McGough: Really? When? Mr Bones: Oh, once upon a time ... ? Graham Chapman tags: humor, poetry 32 likes Like Amy Lowell 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... ? Amy Lowell tags: cats, garden, lilac, poetry 31 likes Like Lemony Snicket My silence knot is tied up in my hair; as if to keep my love out of my eyes. I ca nnot speak to one for whom i care. A hatpin serves as part of my disguise. In the play, my role is baticeer; a word which here means "person who trains bat s." The audience may feel a prick of fear, as if sharp pins are hidden in thier hats. My co-star lives on what we call a brae. His solitude might not be just an act. A piece of mail fails to arrive one day. This poignant melodrama's based on fact . The curtain falls just as the knot unties; the silence is broken by the one who dies. ? Lemony Snicket tags: mystery, poetry 30 likes Like

Mary Oliver Poetry is a life-cherishing force. ? Mary Oliver tags: poetry 29 likes Like John Adams You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. ? John Adams tags: poetry 29 likes Like Emily Dickinson Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring ,Its summer blossoms scent the air; Yet wait till winter comes again, And who will call the wild-briar fair? Then, scorn the silly rose-wreath now, And deck thee with holly's sheen, That, when December blights thy brow, He still may leave thy garland green. ? Emily Dickinson tags: poetry 28 likes Like Wallace Stevens One must read poetry with one's nerves. ? Wallace Stevens tags: poetry 27 likes Like Otto Ren Castillo But I don't shut up and I don't die. I live and fight, maddening those who rule my country. For if I live I fight, and if I fight I contribute to the dawn. ? Otto Ren Castillo tags: guatemala, poetry, revolution 27 likes Like Naomi Shihab Nye you will never catch up. Walk around feeling like a leaf know you could tumble at any second. Then decide what to do with your time. --The Art of Disappearing ? Naomi Shihab Nye, Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets tags: poetry 27 likes Like Emily Dickinson I had been hungry all the yearsMy noon had come, to dineI, trembling, drew the table near And touched the curious wine. 'Twas this on tables I had seen When turning, hungry, lone, I looked in windows, for the wealth I could not hope to own. I did not know the ample bread,

'Twas so unlike the crumb The birds and I had often shared In Nature's diningroom. The plenty hurt me, 'twas so new,-Myself felt ill and odd, As berry of a mountain bush Transplanted to the road. Nor was I hungry; so I found That hunger was a way Of persons outside windows, The entering takes away. ? Emily Dickinson, I'm Nobody! Who Are You? tags: poetry 25 likes Like Federico Garca Lorca Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verdes ramas. El barco sobre la mar y el caballo en la montaa. ? Federico Garca Lorca tags: poetry 22 likes Like Li-Young Lee I am that last, that final thing, the body in a white sheet listening, ? Li-Young Lee tags: poetry 22 likes Like Stevie Smith Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day. ? Stevie Smith tags: marriage, poetry, women 22 likes Like Boris Pasternak Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wi ld, Creation's tears in shoulder blades. ? Boris Pasternak tags: beauty, poetry 21 likes Like Dejan Stojanovic Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself. ? Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun tags: alone, books, dejan-stojanovic, literature, literature-quotes, philosophy,

poetry, poetry-quotes, poets, quotes, the-sun-watches-the-sun, war, wars, wisdo m, yourself 19 likes Like David Carradine If you can not be a poet, be the poem. ? David Carradine tags: poetry 18 likes Like Frank O'Hara ...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it... ? Frank O'Hara, Lunch Poems tags: poetry 17 likes Like Walt Whitman This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest intere sts me ? Walt Whitman tags: new-york-city, poetry 17 likes Like Virginia Woolf My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness. ? Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters tags: poetry 17 likes Like Langston Hughes I don't dare start thinking in the morning. I don't dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head-So I don't dare start thinking in the morning. ? Langston Hughes tags: bed, mornings, poem, poetry, thinking 16 likes Like Mark Strand Even this late it happens the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, sending up warm bouquets of air. Even this late the bones of the body shine and tomorrow s dust flares into breath. ? Mark Strand, The Late Hour tags: hope, love, poetry 16 likes Like Jerome K. Jerome You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he knows not why." If Harris's eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is because Harris has been eating raw onions, or has put too much Worcester over his chop. If you were to stand at night by the sea-shore with Harris, and say: "Hark! do you not hear? Is it but the mermaids singing deep below the waving wat ers; or sad spirits, chanting dirges for white corpses held by seaweed?" Harris would take you by the arm, and say: "I know what it is, old man; you've got a chill. Now you come along with me. I k now a place round the corner here, where you can get a drop of the finest Scotch whisky you ever tasted- put you right in less than no time." Harris always does know a place round the corner where you can get something bri lliant in the drinking line. I believe that if you met Harris up in Paradise (su pposing such a thing likely), he would immediately greet you with: "So glad you've come, old fellow; I've found a nice place round the corner here, where you can get some really first-class nectar.

? Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat tags: drinking, poetry 15 likes Like John Keats Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o er-brimm d their clammy cells. ? John Keats, Complete Poems and Selected Letters tags: autumn, nature, poetry 15 likes Like previous 1 2 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 99 100 next All Quotes | My Quotes | Add A Quote

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