Quotes and sayings about tag  poetry

125 Quotes

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

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

Pablo Neruda

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

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

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

Nikki Giovanni

Late FragmentAnd did you get whatyou wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To call myself beloved, to feel myselfbeloved on the earth.

Raymond Carver

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

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Robert Frost

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

We love the things we love for what they are.

Robert Frost

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

Ovid

A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Robert Frost

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

The truth is I didn’t need therapy; I just needed to feel loved and know that someone out there craved my attention.

Robert M. Drake

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

Pablo Neruda

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