Jeje Buster edit profile friends help switch to mobile sign out my profile Goodreads: Book reviews, recommendations, 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 1,111-1,140 of 3,000) Virginia Woolf Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters see m to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to p ieces. ? Virginia Woolf, Orlando tags: antipathy, drama, green, literature, nature, poetry, writing 26 likes Like Roman Payne The season was waning fast Our nights were growing cold at last I took her to bed with silk and song, 'Lay still, my love, I won t be long; I must prepare my body for passion.' 'O, your body you give, but all else you ration.' 'It is because of these dreams of a sylvan scene: A bleeding nymph to leave me serene... I have dreams of a trembling wench.' 'You have dreams,' she said, 'that cannot be quenched.' 'Our passion,' said I, 'should never be feared; As our longing for love can never be cured. Our want is our way and our way is our will, We have the love, my love, that no one can kill.' 'If night is your love, then in dreams you ll fulfill... This love, our love, that no one can kill.' Yet want is my way, and my way is my will, Thus I killed my love with a sleeping pill. ? Roman Payne tags: bed, cold, fear, killing, love, nocturne, passion, payne, poetry, ration, roman, romantic, silk, sleeping, sleeping-pill, winter 26 likes Like Virgil forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.

and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day ? Virgil, Virgil: Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid: Books 1-6 tags: 4-203, forsan, meminisse, optimism, perhaps, poetry 23 likes Like Don Marquis Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon a nd waiting for the echo. ? Don Marquis tags: book, don-marquis, grand-canyon, petal, poetry, rose 21 likes Like Roberto Bolao Only poetry isn't shit. ? Roberto Bolao tags: poetry 20 likes Like Wallace Stevens The way through the world Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. ? Wallace Stevens tags: journey, life, poetry, spirit 19 likes Like Lus Vaz de Cames Times change, as do our wills, What we are - is ever changing; All the world is m ade of change, And forever attaining new qualities. ? Lus Vaz de Cames, Sonetos de Cames tags: change, poetry, time, will 17 likes Like With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new. ? Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black tags: dancing, inspirational-quotes, modern-authors, music, paranormal, parapsyc hology, poetry, psychology, rebirth, resurrection, souls, spirituality 17 likes Like Seamus Heaney There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you. ? Seamus Heaney tags: poetry 17 likes Like Mark Doty What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing? ? Mark Doty tags: poetry 13 likes Like Wilfred Owen All a poet can do today is warn. ? Wilfred Owen tags: poetry, writing 13 likes Like John Milton Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks. ? John Milton, Paradise Lost tags: poetry, religion 13 likes Like I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I am torn in two. ? Catullus tags: neoteric, poetry, roman 11 likes Like Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind;

overflowing with blossomfoam, like a sudsy mug of beer; like a bride ripping off her clothes, dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds, so Nature s wastefulness seems quietly obscene. It s been doing that all week: making beauty, and throwing it away, and making more. ? Tony Hoagland, What Narcissism Means to Me tags: poetry 11 likes Like Ikkyu don't wait for the man standing in the snow to cut off his arm help him now ? Ikkyu, Crow with No Mouth tags: koan, poetry, zen 11 likes Like Benny Bellamacina Be generous with your smile and try not to frown. And you will see my children; your smile will never let you down ? ? Benny Bellamacina, The King of Rhyme tags: children-s-literature, education, educational, humorous, poetry, wisdom 11 likes Like Louise Glck Gretel in Darkness: This is the world we wanted. All who would have seen us dead are dead. I hear the witch's cry break in the moonlight through a sheet of sugar: God rewards. Her tongue shrivels into gas.... Now, far from women's arms And memory of women, in our father's hut we sleep, are never hungry. Why do I not forget? My father bars the door, bars harm from this house, and it is years. No one remembers. Even you, my brother, summer afternoons you look at me as though you meant to leave, as though it never happened. But I killed for you. I see armed firs, the spires of that gleaming kiln-Nights I turn to you to hold me but you are not there. Am I alone? Spies hiss in the stillness, Hansel we are there still, and it is real, real, that black forest, and the fire in earnest. ? Louise Glck tags: poetry 10 likes Like George Orwell

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes? ? George Orwell, 1984 tags: poetry 10 likes Like Santosh Kalwar Love does not claim materialistic possession of any kind, it yields complete free dom. ? Santosh Kalwar tags: freedom, love, poetry 9 likes Like Mark Haddon Miaow Consider me. I sit here like Tiberius, inscrutable and grand. I will let "I dare not" wait upon "I would" and bear the twangling of your small guitar because you are my owl and foster me with milk. Why wet my paw? Just keep me in a bag and no one knows the truth. I am familiar with witches and stand a better chance in hell than you for I can dance on hot bricks, leap your height and land on all fours. I am the servant of the Living God. I worship in my way. Look into these slit green stones and follow your reflected lights into the dark. Michel, Duc de Montaigne, knew. You don't play with me. I play with you. ? Mark Haddon, The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea: Poems tags: cats, poetry 9 likes Like Marianne Moore ... imaginary gardens with real toads in them ... ... if you demand on one hand, the raw material of poetry in all its rawness and that which is on the other hand genuine, then you are interested in poetry. ? Marianne Moore, Complete Poems tags: poetry 9 likes Like Adrian Mitchell Most people ignore most poetry because poetry ignores most people. ? Adrian Mitchell tags: poetry 9 likes Like Santosh Kalwar From the mind which thinks to die, let my soul sleep tonight. ? Santosh Kalwar, I Am Dead Man Alive tags: poetry 8 likes Like Edna St. Vincent Millay Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.

? Edna St. Vincent Millay tags: beauty, poetry 8 likes Like Oscar Wilde I have been right, Basil, haven t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Ju liet on the mouth. ? Oscar Wilde tags: dorian-gray, love, poetry, shakespeare 8 likes Like Bono There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it . ? Bono tags: art, poetry 8 likes Like Joyce Carol Oates If food is poetry, is not poetry also food? ? Joyce Carol Oates tags: on-writing, poetry 7 likes Like Andr Breton The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poe ms a revolver is leveled straight at us. ? Andr Breton tags: poetry, poets 7 likes Like From the ashes a fire shall be woken A light from the shadows shall spring Renewed shall be blade that was broken The crownless again shall be king. ? JRR Tolkein tags: dramatic, poetry 6 likes Like Euripides That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time. ? Euripides, Trojan women: The Trojan women by Euripedes, and Helen, and Orestes by Ritsos tags: philosophical, poetry 6 likes Like previous 1 2 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 99 100 next All Quotes | My Quotes | Add A Quote

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