Ending Poetry Quotes

#1. Life is a never-ending poetry of love.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Power required corruption, and corruption rewarded power.

V.E Schwab

#3. I am a poem in progress
with no clear beginning or ending
just a middle
untended, unintended,
unfinished, hanging there
like the breath before a question

Jen Lynn Anderson

#4. There comes a time, we know not when, that marks the destiny of men.

Joseph Addison Alexander

#5. Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

Daniel H. Wilson

#6. A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.

Robert Atkins

#7. One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

Maxine Kumin

#8. There are a couple of utterly important rules to writing anything, whether it's a novel, a short story or a collection of poetry. And they're really the only rules.
1: Quit talking about it and start.
2: Focus and finish it.

Nicholas Trandahl

#9. and tonight we held each
other, one last time,
like a dance to a
slow song
on an empty
floor,
underneath a single
disco ball
in front of
no one
at all

Phil Volatile

#10. The wall between writing and painting is just good grammar.

Moderation in moderation.

Fun is scary with a happy ending.

Just love. If love doesn't transform that which annoys you, it will be easier to tolerate.

Emily Thornton Calvo

#11. As youngest boy in service, the worst jobs fell to him, and this would

Robert Silverberg

#12. We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

John Steinbeck

#13. I've decided being eaten alive by anything is my last choice of causes of death." "What's first choice?" "Kicking it at two hundred and twenty, minutes after being sexually satisfied by my thirty-five-year-old Spanish lover, and his twin brother." "There's something to be said for that,

J.D. Robb

#14. If I were asked to name one aspect of tennis that is the biggest weakness of players of all levels, I would probably say concentration. However good your shots, however fast your movement and reflexes, all is lost if the mind is not controlling every move.

Ken Rosewall

#15. The tragedy of love is in its ending,
the blessing - everything else.

No love ever deserves to end.

Akif Kichloo

#16. Those ancients who in poetry presented
the golden age, who sang its happy state,
perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place.
Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here
were every fruit and never-ending spring;
these streams
the nectar of which poets sing.

Dante Alighieri

#17. I have often observed that the state of motherhood can turn quite ordinary females into heroines . . .

Kate Saunders

#18. Through obedience learn to command.

Plato

#19. When I take a break, even just a brief one, the creative energy flows in. Only then do I have anything of value to share with others. Once I recognized this, I stopped feeling guilty about taking time for myself.

Holly Mosier

#20. Maybe this is the way to come out of a war, he thinks. A burned man to care for, some sheets to wash in a fountain, a room painted like a garden.

Michael Ondaatje

#21. Where do I come into all of this? Am I just some animal or dog?' And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching: 'Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?

Anthony Burgess

#22. Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

Nicolas Chamfort

#23. I think here I will leave you. It has come to seem
there is no perfect ending.
Indeed, there are infinite endings.
Or perhaps, once one begins,
there are only endings.

Louise Gluck

#24. When I usually outshine the light, I look for evanescence. The ending to my resplendence is much more divine, when it's singing a sweet lullaby of captured shine.

Lionel Suggs