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“The true poem rests between the words.”

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Author:Vanna Bonta

“There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.”

Poetry Realizing Poetic

Book:For the birds

Source: For the birds

“Poetry is a game of loser-take-all.”

Poetry Games Poetry Is Loser

Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.”

Knows I Can Book Enough Feelings Dream Past Poetry Doors Window Beer Sneak Back Doors Great Feelings Beatnik Past Love

Book:Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle: Pocket Poets Number 8

Source: Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle: Pocket Poets Number 8

“She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.”

Whole Poetry Skins Blue Whole Life Passings Mask Hiding Looking For Love No Second Chances

Author:Shel Silverstein

“But now, you are twain, you are cloven apart Flesh of his flesh, but heart of my heart.”

Heart Poetry My Heart Flesh

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)

“We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry. A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn't take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn't claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.”

“Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.”

Firsts Long Book Poetry Reading Reading Books Dictionary Singer Songwriters Rock Music Oxford Really Long Big Book

Author:David Bowie

“grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.”

“Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”

Giving Beautiful Poetry Dangerous Illusion Poetry Is Beautiful Poetry

Author:Rumi

“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”

Life Made Poetry Animal Air Sea Land Poet Scripts Barriers Poetry Is Going Away Rainbow Journal Living On Phantoms Syllables

Author:Carl Sandburg

“Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young.”

Men Soul Young Poetry Poet Died Carrie Inner Child Die Young

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.”

Inspirational Poetry Night Left Lines Mouths Sexy Breathe

Author:Andrea Gibson

“Forests may be gorgeous but there is nothing more alive than a tree that learns how to grow in a cemetery.”

Inspirational May Poetry Grows Alive Tree Forests Gorgeous Cemetery

Author:Andrea Gibson

“I rhyme… to see myself, to set the darkness echoing.”

Poetry Darkness Rhyme

Book:Poems, 1965-1975

Source: Poems, 1965-1975

“If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.”

Ifs Want Poetry Poet Annoying Nerdiness

Book:Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

Source: Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile

“If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.”

“Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.”

Knows Want Inspirational Needs Poetry Certain Dies Prayer Secret Wonderful Solitude Safe Nervous Broken Heart Hiding Hiding Place Before I Die

Book:Take Me With You

Source: Take Me With You

“Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.”

Poetry Walks Journey Walking Dancing Dance Wander Prose Poetry Is Hiking Trekking Strolling Sauntering

Author:Paul Valery

“I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.”

Littles Government Form Poetry Hope Democracy Destruction Victim Admire Sarcasm Sarcastic Effectiveness Forms Of Government Admiring Complicity

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“I have so much of you in my heart.”

Love Heart Poetry My Heart Romantic Adoption I Love You Lyric Poetry

Book:Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition

Source: Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition

“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”

“Everything but "I LOVE YOU" is small talk.”

Love Poetry Love You I Love You Loving Someone Small Talk

Author:Andrea Gibson

“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.”

May Stills Death Poetry Time Opportunity Dying Flower Tomorrow Rose Flying Time Management Bud Impermanence Old Time Rosebuds Rose Buds

Author:Robert Herrick

“For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.”

Poetry Time Turns Love Is Darkness Our Lives Wife And Love Rose Fruit Lust Dust Division Crowns Our Love Corpses Thorns Old Days Barren Life Time Derision

Author:Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.”

Thinking World Poetry Found Literature Virtue Poet Modesty

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.”

Men Poetry Time Poet Profound Philosopher Great Poet Great Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.”

“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.”

“The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.”

“No poems can please long or live that are written by water drinkers.”

Long Poetry Water Written Food Please Drinkers Funny Drinking Drinking Funny Drinking Wine Liquor Funny Drinking With Friends Wine Drinkers

Author:Horace

“It is absurd and anti-life to be part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.”

“Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.”

Writing Political Poetry Clothes Sunday Poetry Is Best Poetry

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.”

Heart Poetry Poet Poetry Is Poetic Great Poet Great Poetry Poetry And Music Poetry By Poets Heart Strings Heartstrings

Author:Dennis Gabor

“Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.”

Writing Poetry Animal Air Sea Land Poet Poetry Is Journal Living On Great Poet Great Poetry Poetry By Poets Greatest Poetry

Book:The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

Source: The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg

“Poetry is an act of peace.”

Poetry Poetry Is

Book:Memoirs

Source: Memoirs

“Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.”

Ideas Together Poetry Language Emotion Poet Ordinary Tough Skins Raised Poetry Is Delicate Reading Poetry Poetry By Famous Poets Poetry By Poets Poetry Reading Tough Skin

Author:Paul Engle

“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”

Poetry Poet Invisible Priests Poetry Is Great Poetry Poetry By Poets

Author:Wallace Stevens

“Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.”

Men Poetry Language Poetry Is Amazement Predicaments Great Poetry Prose And Poetry

Book:The Early Days

Source: The Early Days

“Poetry is frosted fire.”

Poetry Fire Poetry Is

Author:J. Patrick Lewis

“Poetry lies its way to the truth.”

Way Lying Poetry

Author:John Ciardi

“For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.”

Self Poetry Understanding Autobiography Biographies Self Understanding

Author:Robert Penn Warren

“Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.”

Poetry Bird Poetry Is Frontiers New Frontiers

Author:Yevgeny Yevtushenko

“I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.”

Thinking Firsts Said Remember Poetry Wonder Sky Poet Poetry Is Classroom Caves Savanna

Author:Lucille Clifton

“But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without an object for their employment all art is necessarily objective. It doesn't declaim or explain, it presents.”

Art Poetry Objects Art Is Senses Objectives Employment Sensual

Author:William Carlos Williams

“All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'”

Political Poetry Poet Status Quo

Book:Conversations with Sonia Sanchez

Source: Conversations with Sonia Sanchez

“Writing poetry is a state of free float.”

Writing States Poetry Poetry Is Floats Writing Poetry

Book:Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

Source: Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood

“Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying.”

Happens Poetry Things Happen Valleys

Book:The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir

Source: The Pawnbroker's Daughter: A Memoir

“Poetry is important. No less than science, it seeks a hold upon reality, and the closeness of its approach is the test of its success.”

Important Reality Poetry Approach Tests Poetry Is Closeness

Author:Babette Deutsch

“Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually - that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too - but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.”

Way Feelings Poetry Imagination Emotion Fine Approach Poetry Is

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

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