What Is Poetry Quotes

Ocean waves gently rock the boat, As if to the tune of a lullaby.She sits still as the boat silently floatsUnder the infinite blue sky.

A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its story.

I Don't Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday That Changed Today.

Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.

Writing poetry is a state of free float

They are both spectacular, Life and death.

The man is in his work, read it if you want to know about him.

He awaits himself while walking, out of the icy circle to escape.

Instead of imitating me, you simply loiter.

To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.

In the end, the world returns to a grain.

Vandals listen only when others are stronger.If vandals are equal or strongerTheir word is the last word.

I can see myself before myself—A being through dark scenery.

If emptiness is endless, then everything rests in emptiness.

When everything hurries everywhere, nothing goes anywhere.

There are no clear borders, Only merging invisible to the sight.

The eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.

From everything, nothing looks to nothing.

There is a pledge of the big and of the small in the infinite.

Without nothing, everything would be nothing.

From nothing comes everything.

Earth is the source of light.

Although personal calling I sense, Who am I? even if I am, I don't know.

To expect to be kissed having bad breath is the secret of a fool.

To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery.

Unjustified ambition kills value, Kills someone else's desire to fly, Cuts their wings, sucks their air.If there is nothing else, it eats its own life.

A star needs a star.

We traveled long and forgot why poetry was invented.

To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism.

There is always the question why And there is always life, Which doesn't need an answer.

Great poets are great copy editors.

Possible impossibility emerges From an impossible possibility, Or possibly, impossible possibility Blooms from the impossibly possible impossibility.

Everything seems impossible And everything seems possible.

Without pleasure there is no sight or measure.

There is no born lover, There is no born Don Juan, For we are all lovers.

They will smile, as they always do when they plan a major attack late in the night.

Dust to dust, ashes to ashes. Is that all?

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer.

Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan.

For a moment at least, be a smile on someone else’s face.

The game itself is bigger than the winning.

We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards.

The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.

Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not.

Your head is a lit chamber.

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

We need knew knights, but without swords.

How does one say something new and not retell?

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time.