Best poetry & sky Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I hate my verses, every line, every word. Oh pale and brittle pencils ever to try One grass-blade's curve, or the throat of one bird That clings to twig, ruffled against white sky. Oh cracked and twilight mirrors ever to catch One color, one glinting flash, of the splendor of things.”

Trying Poetry Hate Lines White Sky Color Bird I Hate Mirrors Grass Throat Twilight Flash Pale Verses Curves Pencils Blades Splendor Cracked Twigs

Book:The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938

Source: The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938

“Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where the love of her is strong and healthy, wickedness and wrong cannot long prevail.”

Long Faces Poetry Strong Sky Healthy Blue Calm Wickedness Blue Sky Reformers Motherly

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look at it! And nothing more. Don't you understand anything about poetry? Leave that to the critics and the professors. For neither you, nor I, nor any poet knows what poetry is.”

Knows Looks Poetry Sky Poet Critics Clouds Poetry Is Professors

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends.”

Mind War Ends Together Poetry Night Rooms Sun Sky Poet Moon Soldier Patches Day And Night Cadence

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“I want a bedroom near the sky, an astrologer's cave Where I can fashion eclogues that are chaste and grave.”

Want I Can Poetry Sky Fashion Poet Graves Bedroom Caves Astrology Chaste

Book:A Wave: Poems

Source: A Wave: Poems

“Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.”

“She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.”

“To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—”

Book Lying Poetry Nature Sky Summer Summertime Summer Garden Sky And Clouds Summer Inspirational Great Summer

Book:The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“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

“If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.”

Ifs Facts Light Poetry Stars Common Magic Sky Keys Highest Common Sense Poetry Is Spells Rubbish Sideways Ineffable Windy

Book:Eight Lectures on Yoga

Source: Eight Lectures on Yoga

“The sky dreams of stars, the earth dreams of love.”

Love Dream Earth Poetry Stars Sky

Author:Mihai Eminescu

“Girl with the burning golden eyes, And red-bird song, and snowy throat: I bring you gold and silver moons, And diamond stars, and mists that float. I bring you moons and snowy clouds, I bring you prarie skies to-night To feebly praise your golden eyes And red-bird song, and throat so white. ~Vachel Lindsay "To Gloriana" God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all the new enchanted earth to see.”

“Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off the Island of the Emperor Chin disappear on the ocean. Which way have they gone? More than a thousand years ago the mighty emperor Tsao Tsao cracked his whip and drove his army against the Tartars. He left us a poem: "Let us move east to the Stone Mountains." Today we still shiver in the autumn gale, in desolate winds, yet another man is in the world.”

“I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.”

Remember Poetry Born Existence Sky Planets Balls Storm Dawn Grass Gas Void Splits Flash Belly Lit Remember When Spit Jade

Book:Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015

Source: Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015

“We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.”

Ifs Believe Soul Poetry Dies Fate Sea Sky Land Please Raises Arise Unwind

Book:Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015

Source: Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015

“When I die, bury me in the sky— no one is fighting over it.”

War Death Poetry Fighting Sky Dying Poem Burials

Author:Sara Abou Rashed

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