Quotes About Poetry Quotes tagged as "poetry" (showing 1-30 of 3,000) J.R.R. Tolkien “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. 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.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither 34397 Pablo Neruda “I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets tags: love, poetry 25341 Pablo Neruda “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.” ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets tags: love, poetry 8795 Robert Frost
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“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
tags: love, poetry 25341
Pablo Neruda
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
tags: love, poetry 8795
Robert Frost
“The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
― Robert Frost
tags: choice, poetry 8322
Robert Frost
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
― Robert Frost
tags: love, poetry 8306
Victor Hugo
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo
tags: literature, music, poetry 8050
E.E. Cummings
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
― E.E. Cummings
tags: love, poetry 7256
Kahlil Gibran
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
tags: philosophy, poetry 6211
Plato
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato
tags: love, poetry, song 6018
Cassandra Clare
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
tags: art, poetry 4050
E.E. Cummings
“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings
tags: poetry 3702
E.E. Cummings
“Unbeing dead isn't being alive.”
― E.E. Cummings
tags: death, life, poetry 3364
G.K. Chesterton
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions
tags: cheese, poetry 3126
Robert Frost
“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.”
― Robert Frost
tags: poetry 3071
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver
tags: poetry 2957
Pablo Neruda
“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,
and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”
― Pablo Neruda
tags: love, poetry 2447
Kahlil Gibran
“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.”
― Kahlil Gibran
tags: poetry, wisdom 2164
Walt Whitman
“What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.”
― Walt Whitman
tags: poetry 2120
Charles Darwin
“If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.”
― Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
tags: arts, life, music, poetry 2118
Anne Sexton
“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”
― Anne Sexton
tags: poetry 2022
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Still round the corner there may wait
A new road or a secret gate
And though I oft have passed them by
A day will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
tags: books, poetry 1998
Robert Frost
“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
― Robert Frost
tags: humor, poetry, religion 1912
Anne Sexton
“Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.”
― Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems
tags: intellect, love, poetry 1840
Ian Fleming
“You only live twice:
Once when you're born
And once when you look death in the face.”
― Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
tags: death, james-bond, philosophy, poetry 1752
Neil Gaiman
“She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood.
She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here.”
― Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
tags: inspirational, poetry 1717
T.S. Eliot
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
― T.S. Eliot
tags: poetry 1689
Robert Frost
“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”
― Robert Frost
“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
tags: poetry 650
Charlotte Brontë
“All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
tags: love, poetry 637
William Faulkner
“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”
― William Faulkner, The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem]
tags: life-experience, poetry, sorrow 563
Rainer Maria Rilke
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
tags: poetry 500
Janet Fitch
“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.”
― Janet Fitch, White Oleander
tags: hard, poetry 499
Pablo Neruda
“It was at that age
that poetry came in search of me.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can
begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.”
― Judith Minty, Letters to My Daughters
tags: change, leaving, moving, poetry, rebirth, time 274
Nick Hornby
“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”
― Nick Hornby, How to Be Good
tags: heroin, humanity, love, poetry 269
George Eliot
“It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch
tags: music, poetry 267
W.B. Yeats
“What can be explained is not poetry.”
― W.B. Yeats
tags: poetry, yeats 263
E.E. Cummings
“twice I have lived forever in a smile”
― E.E. Cummings
tags: cummings, love, poetry, smiling 254
Langston Hughes
“Looks like what drives me crazy
Don't have no effect on you--
But I'm gonna keep on at it
Till it drives you crazy, too.”
― Langston Hughes, Selected Poems
tags: craziness, crazy, evil, poetry 240
Maya Angelou
“It’s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I’m a woman
Phenomenally.”
― Maya Angelou, Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women
tags: confidence, poetry, womanhood 234
“and love is a word used
too much and
much
too soon.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps
“Wonder is not a disease. Wonder, and its expression in poetry and the arts, are among the most important things which seem to distinguish men from other animals, and intelligent and sensitive people from morons.”
― Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
“Poetry was a discipline grounded in experience that drew its life and worth from a source much greater than oneself, and as it realized its potential to touch others in their innermost being, what [Kathleen] Fraser has termed their "yearning side," it could be a profoundly communal act. Poetry, when it succeeded, did so in ways that were not quantifiable, and did not look much like worldly success, but that might be summed up as the joy on the face of a girl in a dingy classroom who finds a kindred spirit in a poem by Garcia Lorca.”
― Kathleen Norris, The Virgin of Bennington
tags: poetry 0
Washington Irving
“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.”
― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
tags: literature, poetry 0
John Keats
“That men, who might have tower'd in the van
Of all the congregated world, to fan
And winnow from the coming step of time
All chaff of custom, wipe away all slime
Left by men-slugs and human serpentry,
Have been content to let occasion die,
Whilst they did sleep in love's Elysium.”
― John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance
tags: greatness, innovation, love, poetry 0
Rudyard Kipling
“Like Princes crowned they bore them--
Like Demi-Gods they wrought,
When the New World lay before them
In headlong fact and thought.
Fate and their foemen proved them
Above all meed of praise,
And Gloriana loved them,
And Shakespeare wrote them plays!
. . . . . . .
Now Valour, Youth, and Life's delight break forth
In flames of wondrous deed, and thought sublime---
Lightly to mould new worlds or lightly loose
Words that shall shake and shape all after-time!
Giants with giants, wits with wits engage,
And England-England-England takes the breath
Of morning, body and soul, till the great Age
Fulfills in one great chord:--Elizabeth!”
― Rudyard Kipling, Complete Verse
tags: elizabeth-ii, england, poetry, royalty 0
“Se te empiezan a acumular los tiempos perdidos y no te quedan manos para tapar los agujeros.”
― Rosa Yánez Gómez, Esto no es un libro de poesía
tags: poesía, poetry 0
“No hay soledad peor que tu silencio.”
― Rosa Yánez Gómez, Esto no es un libro de poesía
tags: poesía, poetry 0
Michael Bassey Johnson
“If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.”
“...the imagination works not so much through inspiration as through perseverance. One must slog through the false starts, spot the wrong words and hold out for the right ones, and above all, be vigilant about staying on the path of revision, no matter how uncomfortable or even painful the journey might become.”
― Kathleen Norris, The Virgin of Bennington
tags: creativity, poetry, writing 0
“Read my poems quite slowly
Or should I say listen closely”
― Mr.Yoso
tags: poem, poetry 0
“Pretty girls are envy in your beauty and one of a kind personality- Unique”
― Mr.Yoso
tags: admiration, enlightenment, lyrics, poem, poetry, song 0
Saila Susiluoto
“14.
Hän poimii auringonpaloa puutarhoista ja maakellarista, joka on tämä
taivas reikineen, valo sataa sisään aukoista. Hän poimii valoa
kuppikaupalla, sormenpäät ovat mustuneet. Hän heittää siemeniä
maininkeihin, jotta ne kasvavat.
Hopea vuotaa kaikkialta läpi, niin kuin maansydän olisi
aaltojen välkettä.”
― Saila Susiluoto, Auringonkierto
tags: finnish, poetry 0
Saila Susiluoto
“21.
Muurahaisten sokerijalat, täyttymystahmeat. Niiden keinuvat mustat
siivet, valosta varjoon soljuvat varret. Auringon myöhäiset sormet
höyhenillä, niin tuuliset ja viipyilevät. Niin kuin se, mikä on kahden välillä
löytää paikkansa, lepäämättä. Tai niin kuin leikki alkaa surusta, leikillä on
kehä, sen keskellä aina joku, unohtunut valo hiuksillaan, muistuttaa
merestä johon aurinko uppoaa niin tuulisesti, niin tuulisesti ja viipyilevästi
kuin iholla rakastetun sormet. Tapaaminen joka on aina viimeinen, leikin
keskellä, ulkopuolella leikin, ei surun.”
― Saila Susiluoto, Auringonkierto
tags: finnish, poetry 0
Saila Susiluoto
“Lehtihevonen laukkaa, se on vehmas ja valloillaan. Sen kyljillä kiiltää
koivuntuoksu, kesäisen illan toiveikas valo. Ettei aurinkomme koskaan
laskisi. Ettei rakkaus laskisi mittaa, tiimalasi tyhjyyden täyttyvää määrää.
Hevonen laukkaa, kello kumahtelee, sydän laskee yötä kammioidensa läpi.
Hevonen laukkaa, niin kuin aika ohimoilla ruohonsilkkisin sormin, se