Poetry
Quotes - If you are a dreamer come in
“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.
I
hunger for your sleek laugh,
your
hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger
for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I
want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
I
want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the
sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I
want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,
and
I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting
for you, for your hot heart,
Like
a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”
―
Pablo Neruda
“What
is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have
read in my life.”
―
Walt Whitman
“If
you are a dreamer come in
If
you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A
hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If
youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For
we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come
in!
Come
in!”
―
Shel Silverstein
“Still
round the corner there may wait
A
new road or a secret gate
And
though I oft have passed them by
A
day will come at last when I
Shall
take the hidden paths that run
West
of the Moon, East of the Sun.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien
“She
seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the
horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon
meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through
her like a river of blood.
She
only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your
tomorrows start here.”
―
Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders
“Though
my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I
have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
―
Sarah Williams, Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
“Only
those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
―
T.S. Eliot
“This
is the way the world ends
Not
with a bang but a whimper.”
―
T.S. Eliot
“Let
our scars fall in love.”
―
Galway Kinnell
“As
it has been said:
Love
and a cough
cannot
be concealed.
Even
a small cough.
Even
a small love.”
―
Anne Sexton
“Forgive,
O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And
I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
―
Robert Frost
“...and
then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is
enough?”
―
Vincent Willem van Gogh
“If
I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry
and listen to some music at least once every week.”
―
Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, 1809–82
“There
is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There
is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There
is society, where none intrudes,
By
the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I
love not man the less, but Nature more”
―
Lord Byron
“You
only live twice:
Once
when you are born
And
once when you look death in the face”
―
Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice
“Always
be a poet, even in prose.”
―
Charles Baudelaire
“Watch
out for intellect,
because
it knows so much it knows nothing
and
leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing
knowledge as your heart
falls
out of your mouth.”
―
Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems
“If
you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.”
―
Seamus Heaney, Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney
“I
like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
―
William Shakespeare
“One
should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine,
with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.”
―
Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen
“Poetry
is what gets lost in translation.”
―
Robert Frost
“Poetry
is what happens when nothing else can.”
―
Charles Bukowski
“to
live in this world
you
must be able
to
do three things
to
love what is mortal;
to
hold it
against
your bones knowing
your
own life depends on it;
and,
when the time comes to let it go,
to
let it go”
―
Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems, Volume One
“There
is freedom waiting for you,
On
the breezes of the sky,
And
you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh
but my darling,
What
if you fly?”
―
Erin Hanson
“We
shall not cease from exploration
And
the end of all our exploring
Will
be to arrive where we started
And
know the place for the first time.”
― T.
S. Eliot, Four Quartets
“What
a strange thing!
to
be alive
beneath
cherry blossoms.”
―
Kobayashi Issa, Poems
“You
might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his
poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.”
―
Rick Riordan
“Ho!
Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go
To
heal my heart and drown my woe
Rain
may fall, and wind may blow
And
many miles be still to go
But
under a tall tree will I lie
And
let the clouds go sailing by”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien
“I
have drunken deep of joy,
And
I will taste no other wine tonight.”
―
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Do
I dare
Disturb
the universe?
In a
minute there is time
For
decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.”
―
T.S. Eliot
