Top 64 Desire Poetry Quotes
#1. Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in her body and gave birth to me out of her desire but washed her hands of me after giving birth to me as a poet.
Kim Hyesoon
#2. Now, again, he paused, and into the breach thus made, leapt Ambition, the harridan, and Poetry, the witch, and Desire of Fame, the strumpet; all joined hands and made of his heart their dancing ground.
Virginia Woolf
#3. I long for the day I no longer long for him.
Franki Fiori
#4. In the calm violence of your being, desire.
Carole Maso
#6. 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.
Dejan Stojanovic
#7. When my desire
grows too fierce
I wear my bed clothes
inside out,
dark as the night's rough husk.
Ono No Komachi
#8. Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read poetry? Why do we cry when we see a painting? Why is there a riot in the heart when we love? Why do we feel shame? What is that thing in the pit of your stomach called desire?
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#9. I want to have a romance so grand,
it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.
Sanober Khan
#10. Between the desire
And the spasm,
Between the potency
And the existence,
Between the essence
And the descent,
Falls the Shadow.
T. S. Eliot
#11. This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one shake, all on the force of a word.
Lauren Willig
#12. What I'm saying is: go barefoot. Or walk out with a handstand. Live in possibility and in constant proximity to desire. Don't just dream; burn your dreams. Heat your life with that fire.
Brad Cran
#13. Desire is a tricky thing, the boiling of the body's wants,
Ada Limon
#15. The true poetic urge is the desire for absolute freedom.
Marty Rubin
#16. False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu!
Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.
Walter Raleigh
#17. I've never
stopped wanting to cross
the equator, or touch an elk's
horns, or sing Tosca or screw
James Dean in a field of wheat.
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life.
Rita Dove
#18. Then, as a single snowflake flares and flickers upon voicing its final breath, so two eyes make silent conversation with mine. A face as iridescent as candle-fire purls verse and poetry. My eyes read her every intent as a wave of recollections floods my senses.
Craig Froman
#19. Thank Goodness I have nearly
unlearned
folding my desire into itself
being afraid to claim it.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#20. I didn't want to sing.
I wanted to be music.
Jenim Dibie
#22. It is not given to each of us
To be desired.
Mina Loy
#23. Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.
Leonard Cohen
#24. Who would one rather be? The one who desires, or the object of desire? One's answer to this question might determine if he is meant to be a poet or something else entirely.
Lan Samantha Chang
#25. Desire, loneliness, wind in the flowering almond
surely these are the great, the inexhaustible subjects
to which my predecessors apprenticed themselves.
I hear them echo in my own heart, disguised as convention.
Louise Gluck
#26. Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
Theodore Roethke
#27. Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#28. Total knowledge is annihilation
Of the desire to see, to touch, to feel
The world sensed only through senses
And immune to the knowledge without feeling.
Dejan Stojanovic
#29. Falling in desire with truth and hope is enhancing our soul with a precious love...
Soar
#31. You are the mark on my liquid heart
where love begins with the beginning's start
You are the desire of the ablaze fires
the only truth from ten-thousand-liars
From the poem- A Letter to My Love
Munia Khan
#32. Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame;
It is the reflex of our earthly frame,
That takes its meaning from the nobler part,
And but translates the language of the heart.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#33. Desire is a powerful boat herding anchors and chains in the middle of the night.
Rosabetty Munoz
#34. What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth
Mary Jo Bang
#35. every choice i have ever made after you existed
has been dependent on exactly
how close i can have you next to me
and how long i can get you to stay.
AVA.
#36. Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
A.A. Milne
#37. Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.
Adrienne Rich
#38. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form.
E. M. Forster
#39. You call it hope - that fire of fire!
It is but agony of desire.
Edgar Allan Poe
#40. I was not sorrowful, but only tired
Of everything that ever I desired.
Ernest Dowson
#41. Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire,
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
Robert Frost
#42. Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.
Dejan Stojanovic
#43. Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness.
As long as there is desire, we will not be safe
Tony Hoagland
#44. Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.
Mary Ruefle
#45. So often it happens that with possession the vast poetry of desire must end, and the thing possessed is seldom the thing that we dreamed of.
N.a.
#46. A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
Dejan Stojanovic
#47. Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
Jacques Maritain
#48. I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.
Adelia Prado
#49. You're my story,
you're my poetry,
you're my flower
you're my deep driving desire.
Debasish Mridha
#50. I was overcome by the simplicity of the brook and abandoned my envy and desire for bravery, and simply prayed: Lord, give me the quietness of the waters of this little brook and like it I will amalgamate myself in thee!
Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco
#51. The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without a poet is a mere heap of clay. If the purpose of poetry is the fashioning of men, poetry is likewise the heir of prophecy.
Muhammad Iqbal
#52. Is the phrase 'pay' or 'play the piper'
I inquire, why
'Cause I admire a desire to flip the switch
Yeah make a way to face the music like
Life savings for a mosh pit riot
Listen to a mix
Rock the tickets, higher volume
Velocity which shakes a cockpit's pilot
Criss Jami
#53. Nostalgia locates desire in the past where it suffers no active conflict and can be yearned toward pleasantly.
Robert Hass
#54. Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.
John Drinkwater
#55. The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths and vast spaces, my own well-being.
Edward Hirsch
#56. Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,
Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature ... .
Sappho
#57. The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams come from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire. The complexity and fecundity of poetry come from the same struggle.
Adrienne Rich
#58. It is the desire for irreverence as much as anything else that brought me first to poetry. The need to make fun of authority, break taboos, celebrate the body and its functions, claim that one has seen angels in the same breath as one says that there is no god.
Charles Simic
#59. April is the cruelest month, breeding
lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
memory and desire, stirring
dull roots with spring rain.
T. S. Eliot
#60. Mind led body
to the edge of the precipice.
They stared in desire
at the naked abyss.
If you love me, said mind,
take that step into silence.
If you love me, said body,
turn and exist.
Anne Stevenson
#61. I seek to be moved, my imagination reborn.
Let me feast on poems that feed my hunger.
Susie Clevenger
#62. "It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart's desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing
Mariam Kobras
#63. Man is no star, but a quick coal
Of mortal fire:
Who blows it not, nor doth control
A faint desire,
George Herbert
#64. I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire.
Another life is never safely envied.
Robert Wells
