Quotes and sayings about tag  poetry

125 Quotes

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

Jeffrey McDaniel

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

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

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

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

John Keats

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

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

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

What a strange thing!to be alivebeneath cherry blossoms.

Kobayashi Issa

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

Gustave Flaubert

People Die...Beauty Fades...Love Changes...And You Will Always Be Alone

L.J. Smith

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

Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace'One grand boulevard with treeswith one grand cafe in sunwith strong black coffee in very small cups.One not necessarily very beautifulman or woman who loves you.One fine day.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

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