Quotes and sayings about tag  poetry

125 Quotes

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

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

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

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

Leonard Cohen

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

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

Marc Wambolt

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

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

Margaret Atwood

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

Lang Leav

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

Mario Benedetti

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

Lang Leav

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

Margaret Atwood

younot wanting mewasthe beginning of mewanting myselfthank you

Nayyirah Waheed

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

Mark Strand

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

Pablo Neruda

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