Poetry Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are expecting to give, which is everything.”
– Katherine Hepburn

“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
– Kenji Miyazawa

“All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
– Langston Hughes 

“If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“Poetry is just the evidence of life.  If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
– Leonard Cohen

“The future depends on what we do in the present.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Imaginary gardens with real toads in them.”
– Marianne Moore

“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”
– Marianne Williamson

“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.”
– Mark Twain

“There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.”
– Melanie Griffith

“If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.”
– Moliere

“But one of the attributes of love, like art, is to bring harmony and order out of chaos, to introduce meaning and affect where before there was none, to give rhythmic variations, highs and lows to a landscape that was previously flat.”
– Molly Haskell

“Write one thousand words a day and in three years you’ll become a writer.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.”
– Novalis

“Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.”
– Ogden Nash

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
– Oscar Wilde

“He lives the poetry that he cannot write.  The others write the poetry that they dare not realise. ”
– Oscar Wilde

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved bring a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.”
– Pablo Neruda

“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.”
– Paul Valéry

“Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject”
– Paulo Coelho

“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.”
– Percy Shelley

“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
– Plato, Ion

“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”
– Quentin Tarantino 

“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

“Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale ’til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.”
– Randall Jarrell

“Good writing is like a windowpane.” 
– Ray Bradbury

“A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.”
– Rene Char

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