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and discussion search Home My Books Groups Recommendations genres listopia giveaways popular goodreads voice ebooks fun trivia quizzes quotes community creative writing people events Explore quote Quotes About Poetry Quotes tagged as "poetry" (showing 1,381-1,410 of 3,000) A.E. Housman Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good. ? A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad tags: poetry, poets 15 likes Like Charles Simic Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley. ? Charles Simic, Dime-Store Alchemy tags: poetry 14 likes Like Robert Burns Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie! ? Robert Burns tags: mouse, poem, poetry, scottish 12 likes Like William Carlos Williams Danse Russe If I when my wife is sleeping and the baby and Kathleen are sleeping and the sun is a flame-white disc in silken mists above shining trees,-if I in my north room

dance naked, grotesquely before my mirror waving my shirt round my head and singing softly to myself: "I am lonely, lonely. I was born to be lonely, I am best so!" If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household? ? William Carlos Williams tags: poetry 11 likes Like William Edgar Stafford A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things he would not have thought of i f he had not started to say them. ? William Edgar Stafford tags: discovery, poetry, thinking, writing 10 likes Like Robert Lowell We are all old-timers, each of us holds a locked razor. ? Robert Lowell, Life Studies tags: poetry 8 likes Like Dorianne Laux Every poem I write falls short in some important way. But I go on trying to write the one that won t. ? Dorianne Laux tags: poetry 8 likes Like Edgar A. Guest I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know. ? Edgar A. Guest tags: poetry 8 likes Like William H. Gass It s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the fle sh made word ? William H. Gass tags: fiction, poetry, word, writing 8 likes Like Natasha Trethewey I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't want to tell someone how to "fix" a poem. ? Natasha Trethewey tags: poetry 7 likes Like Philip Larkin When I throw back my head and howl People (women mostly) say But you've always done what you want, You always get your way - A perfectly vile and foul Inversion of all that's been. What the old ratbags mean Is I've never done what I don't. So the shit in the shuttered chateau Who does his five hundred words Then parts out the rest of the day Between bathing and booze and birds Is far off as ever, but so

Is that spectacled schoolteaching sod (Six kids, and the wife in pod, And her parents coming to stay)... Life is an immobile, locked, Three-handed struggle between Your wants, the world's for you, and (worse) The unbeatable slow machine That brings what you'll get. Blocked, They strain round a hollow stasis Of havings-to, fear, faces. Days sift down it constantly. Years. --The Life with the Hole in It ? Philip Larkin, Philip Larkin Poetry tags: poetry 7 likes Like Charles Dickens She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and mind a re wound up, and entwined with it. She has produced some delightful pieces, hers elf, sir. You may have met with her 'Ode to an Expiring Frog,' sir. ? Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers tags: folly, frog, humor, mind, ode, poetry, soul 7 likes Like Ralph Waldo Emerson Language is fossil Poetry. ? Ralph Waldo Emerson tags: language, poetry 7 likes Like Virginia Woolf To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the an techamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely then lust o r gunpowder. The poet's, then, is the highest office of all. His words reach whe re others fall short. A silly song of Shakespeare's has done more for the poor a nd the wicked than all the preachers and philanthropists in the world. ? Virginia Woolf, Orlando tags: poetry 7 likes Like T.S. Eliot As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill. ? T.S. Eliot tags: love, poetry 7 likes Like Ralph Waldo Emerson The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore; And, looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return. ? Ralph Waldo Emerson tags: death, poetry 7 likes Like Ikkyu we're lost where the mind can't find us utterly lost ? Ikkyu, Crow with No Mouth tags: koan, poetry, zen 6 likes Like Charles Simic In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics rem ind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the st reet. ? Charles Simic, The Unemployed Fortune-Teller: Essays and Memoirs

tags: criticism, deconstruction, language, poetry 6 likes Like Carolyn Kizer Poets are interested primarily in death and commas. ? Carolyn Kizer tags: carolyn, commas, death, kizer, poetry, poets 6 likes Like Audre Lorde If what we need to dream, to move our spirits most deeply and directly toward and through promise, is discounted as a luxury, then we give up the core -- the fou ntain -- of our power, our womanness; we give up the future of our worlds. (From "Poetry is Not a Luxury") ? Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches tags: poetry 6 likes Like Jane Hirshfield One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical ex perience comes into us when we read her poem. ? Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry tags: connections, experience, poetry, time 6 likes Like Annie Finch Criticism is like politics: if you don't make your own you are by default accepti ng the status quo and are finally yourself responsible for whatever the status q uo does to you. ? Annie Finch, The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self tags: poetry, poets 5 likes Like Nicole Blackman At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow. ? Nicole Blackman tags: poetry 5 likes Like A word is elegy to what it signifies. ? Robert Haas tags: poetry 4 likes Like Oliverio Girondo Cansado, sobre todo, de estar siempre conmigo, de hallarme cada da, cuando termina el sueo, all, donde me encuentre, con las mismas narices y con las mismas piernas... ? Oliverio Girondo tags: cansado, girondo, poesia, poetry 4 likes Like Adam Kirsch Once a poet calls his myth a myth, he prevents the reader from treating it as a r eality; we use the word 'myth' only for stories we ourselves cannot believe. ? Adam Kirsch tags: hart-crane, myth, poetry 4 likes Like Willie Perdomo This is definitely / for the brothers / who ain't here. ? Willie Perdomo, Where a Nickel Costs a Dime tags: latino, nuyorican, poetry 4 likes Like Martin Espada Even the most political poem is an act of faith. ? Martin Espada tags: latino, poetry 4 likes Like Clifton Fadiman Don't be afraid of poetry. ? Clifton Fadiman, Clifton Fadiman's Fireside Reader tags: poems, poetry 4 likes Like Wallace Stevens Let be be finale of seem.

The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream. ? Wallace Stevens, Harmonium tags: poetry 4 likes Like previous 1 2 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 99 100 next All Quotes | My Quotes | Add A Quote

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