Poetry Quotes

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. Jim Morrison
People Achieve Aims Ways See Poetry Deliver Feel Limited Anything Which
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Walter Scott
Wisdom Grace Mind Heroic Virtues Poetry Opens Makes Children Lends Teach Your Hereditary
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart. Carol Ann Duffy
Life News You Heart Memory People Everyday Life Everyday Say Find People Say Poetry Just Bus Your
The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual. John Muir
Nature Spiritual Destroyed Civilization Poetry Generally Gross
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. Emily Dickinson
Me Book Fire Cold Poetry Know Read Makes Warm Body Whole Ever
Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. Thomas Gray
Thoughts Words Poetry Burn Breathe
I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright
Thought Reading Everything About Poem Poetry Dictionary
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Solitude Darkness Poet Own Sweet Poetry Cheer Sounds Sings Who
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. Thomas Hardy
Alone World Inquisition Poetry Had Him Said Verse Moved Galileo Might
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. Khalil Gibran
Joy Pain Dash Poetry Deal Wonder Dictionary
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beautiful Mirror Distorted Poetry Makes Which
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves. T. S. Eliot
Time Feelings Our Our Lives Penetrate Ourselves Constant Rarely More Poetry Make Mostly From Time To Time May Being Form Which Little Us Evasion Aware Deeper Lives
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. Vincent Van Gogh
Looking Everywhere Paper Easy Poetry Putting Surrounds Us Alas
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. Bertrand Russell
Mathematics Man Sense Exaltation Spirit Touchstone More Poetry Excellence Delight Highest True Surely True Spirit Than Being Which Found
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. Charles Baudelaire
Time You Wine Wish Drunk Virtue Martyred Poetry Without Get Stopping Slaves
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. Charles Baudelaire
Time You Wine Wish Drunk Virtue Martyred Poetry Hour Drunken Escape Being Slaves
Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. Plato
Truth History Vital Poetry Than Nearer
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W. H. Auden
Love Language Poet Before Else Poetry Passionately Person Anything Anything Else Who
Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. Adrian Mitchell
People Poetry Most Because Ignore Ignores
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed. Brian Harris
Music Soul Mouth Indeed Born Silver Silver Spoon Poetry Spoon Blood Wales Privilege Your
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Charles Simic
Silence Experience Words Poetry Never Equal Quite Behind Them Orphan
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Edmund Burke
Art Nothing Shadows Poetry Existence Lending
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. Ezra Pound
Beautiful World Most Beautiful Will Flame Down Stars Our City Poetry Beautiful City New Like Most Up Squares York New York After Urban Cut Far Here Night Set Pulled
A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Work Must Spirit Poetry Write Impression Tranquility Order Novel
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life. George Sand
Life Poet Though Draws Poetry Delights Never He Written Noble True True Poet Line His Sentiments Who
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. Jean de la Bruyere
Music Painting Mediocrity Poetry Endured Which Public Certain Certain Things Speaking Public Speaking Things
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