Quotes and sayings about tag  #poetry

Quotes and sayings about tag  poetry

125 Quotes

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

Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Kahlil Gibran

And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Kahlil Gibran

What a strange thing!to be alivebeneath cherry blossoms.

Kobayashi Issa

I don't think all writers are sad, she said.I think it's the other way around—all sad people write.

Lang Leav

Love is a game of tic-tac-toe,constantly waitingfor the next x or o.

Lang Leav

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

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Leonard Cohen

I may not always be with you But when we're far apartRemember you will be with meRight inside my heart

Marc Wambolt

You fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish hookan open eye

Margaret Atwood

A truth should exist,it should not be usedlike this. If I love youis that a fact or a weapon?

Margaret Atwood

Five minutes are enough to dream a whole life, that is how relative time is.

Mario Benedetti

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.

Mark Strand

younot wanting mewasthe beginning of mewanting myselfthank you

Nayyirah Waheed

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

Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.

Nikita Gill

and sometimes I sitdown at my typewriterand I thinknot of someonecause there isn't anyoneto thinkabout and i wonderis it worth it

Nikki Giovanni

I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.

Nikki Giovanni

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

Omar Khayyám

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.

Ovid

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

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.

Pablo Neruda

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two together in their sleep will defeat the darkness

Pablo Neruda

I want to see thirstIn the syllables,Tough fireIn the sound;Feel through the darkFor the scream.

Pablo Neruda

I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

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

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Rabindranath Tagore

She who reconciles the ill-matched threadsOf her life, and weaves them gratefullyInto a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hallAnd clears it for a different celebration.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Rainer Maria Rilke

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Randall Jarrell

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