Quotes and sayings about tag  #poetry

Quotes and sayings about tag  poetry

125 Quotes

Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)

E.E. Cummings

twice I have lived forever in a smile

E.E. Cummings

EbbI know what my heart is likeSince your love died:It is like a hollow ledgeHolding a little poolLeft there by the tide,A little tepid pool,Drying inward from the edge.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

But dear, don’t be afraid of love it’s only magic.

Robert M. Drake

Society will always be too fragile to accept us for all that makes us beautiful.

Robert M. Drake

Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.

Robert M. Drake

After all, my erstwhile dear,My no longer cherished,Need we say it was not love,Just because it perished?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll – How frugal is the Chariot That bears a Human soul.

Emily Dickinson

even in the loneliest momentsi have been therefor myself.

Sanober Khan

To fall in love with someone's thoughts - the most intimate, splendid romance.

Sanober Khan

your handtouching mine.this is howgalaxiescollide.

Sanober Khan

To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Put all you areInto the smallest thing you do.So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendorBecause it blooms up above.

Fernando Pessoa

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Gaston Bachelard

Though we tremble before uncertain futuresmay we meet illness, death and adversity with strengthmay we dance in the face of our fears.

Gloria E. Anzaldúa

I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.

Santosh Kalwar

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

Gustave Flaubert

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

As Unto the bow the the cord is ,So unto the man is woman;Though she bends him, she obeys him,Though she draws him , yet she follows:Useless each without the other.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gateAnd though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when IShall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Her happiness floated like waves of ocean along the coast of her life. She found lyrics of her life in his arms but she never sung her song.

Santosh Kalwar

Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

Jasper Fforde

You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.

John Berryman

Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you; Be true to your word and your work and your friend; Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.

John Boyle O'Reilly

I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying so.

John Donne

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

John Keats

Life is but a day;A fragile dew-drop on its perilous wayFrom a tree’s summit.

John Keats

I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.

Judith Minty

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