Poetry
Quotes - Poetry is just the evidence of life
“do
not look for healing
at
the feet of those
who
broke you”
―
Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey
“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, Letters to a Young Poet
“Poetry
is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the
ash.”
―
Leonard Cohen
“Love
one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let
it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”
―
Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
“Poetry
is just so emo." he said. "Oh, the pain. The pain. It always rains.
In my soul.”
―
John Green, Paper Towns
“Time
Does Not Bring Relief
Time
does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who
told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss
him in the weeping of the rain;
I
want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The
old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And
last year’s leaves are smoke in every lane;
But
last year’s bitter loving must remain
Heaped
on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.
There
are a hundred places where I fear
To
go,—so with his memory they brim.
And
entering with relief some quiet place
Where
never fell his foot or shone his face
I
say, “There is no memory of him here!”
And
so stand stricken, so remembering him.”
―
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems
“A
good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good
poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the
universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around
him.”
―
Dylan Thomas
“Though
nothing can bring back the hour
Of
splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
We
will grieve not, rather find
Strength
in what remains behind;
In
the primal sympathy
Which
having been must ever be...”
―
William Wordsworth
“To
be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”
―
Robert Frost
“Genuine
poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
―
T.S. Eliot
“A
Dream Within A Dream
Take
this kiss upon the brow!
And,
in parting from you now,
Thus
much let me avow-
You
are not wrong, who deem
That
my days have been a dream;
Yet
if hope has flown away
In a
night, or in a day,
In a
vision, or in none,
Is
it therefore the less gone?
All that
we see or seem
Is
but a dream within a dream.
I
stand amid the roar
Of a
surf-tormented shore,
And
I hold within my hand
Grains
of the golden sand-
How
few! yet how they creep
Through
my fingers to the deep,
While
I weep- while I weep!
O
God! can I not grasp
Them
with a tighter clasp?
O
God! can I not save
One
from the pitiless wave?
Is
all that we see or seem
But
a dream within a dream?”
―
Edgar Allen Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems
“Love
is not love which alters it when alteration finds, or bends with the remover to
remove: O no! It is an ever fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never
shaken; it is the star to every wandering bark whose worth's unknown, although
his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within
his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and
weeks, but bears it out, even to the edge of doom.”
―
William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
“Peace
is always beautiful.”
―
Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
“What
were you before you met me?"
"I
think I was drowning"
"And
what are you now?"
"Water”
― Ocean
Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“Always
learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like
fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft
decay.”
―
Janet Fitch, White Oleander
“your
hand
touching
mine.
this
is how
galaxies
collide.”
―
Sanober Khan
“The
breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don't
go back to sleep!
You
must ask for what you really want.
Don't
go back to sleep!
People
are going back and forth
across
the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The
door is round and open
Don't
go back to sleep!”
―
Rumi
“Beauty
is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But
you are eternity and you are the mirror.”
―
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
“I
love the silent hour of night,
For
blissful dreams may then arise,
Revealing
to my charmed sight
What
may not bless my waking eyes.”
―
Anne Brontë, Best Poems of the Brontë Sisters
“may
came home with a smooth round stone
as
small as a world and as large as alone.”
―
E.E. Cummings
“We
have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen
in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just
stars that have people names.”
―
Nikita Gill
