Top 91 Fear Poetry Quotes
#1. Fear not the waking world, my mortal,
Fear not the flat, synthetic blood,
Nor the heart in the ribbing metal.
Fear not the tread, the seeded milling,
The trigger and scythe, the bridal blade,
Nor the flint in the lover's mauling.
Dylan Thomas
#2. And so I've written everything down, too afraid of my demons and what they may say, the doubt that eats at me from the inside. Too afraid that I'll forget and it'll all be a madwoman's dream.
Nadege Richards
#3. Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.
John Cage
#4. Loneliness of heart
In the still of the night my heart doth cry out, who can hear it for time is far spent. In the darkness in the shadow of the depth I find isolation and fear ...
M.I. Ghostwriter
#5. So quiet now my dearest knight
your armor shines white still
for my lips shall not say the words
that make you flee with fear
White Knight
Shay Leigh
#7. Happiness is not about hiding the past, it's accepting today and making it last, You should not fear who you have become, have pride in yourself for all you have done. Stand tall and be proud to be who you are, Release your fears and brighten your star.
Kylie Abecca
#8. i am so crammed
full of fears
that if you were
to touch me
i might either
fly
or break.
Sanober Khan
#9. Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,
but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,
regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.
Tyrtaeus
#10. I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love
Anna Akhmatova
#11. say the words out loud / yes / the ones that make your heart pinch / say them out loud
N.L. Shompole
#12. Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.
James Russell Lowell
#13. A fruitless year, take a fearless heart
One that blooms late will flourish in the dark
Criss Jami
#14. Tender Ember
... Barred and branded
to be forever unloved
I was a tender ember
seeking solace from above ...
Muse
#15. The monsters were never
under my bed.
Because the monsters
were inside my head.
I fear no monsters,
for no monsters I see.
Because all this time
the monster has been me.
Nikita Gill
#16. She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes." ~Once Upon A Time There Was A Girl
Kimberly Kinrade
#17. I wind up stretched across the couch
still nodding with Sherlock Holmes
examining our crushed veins
Jim Carroll
#20. If you should see/a man/walking
down a crowded street/ talking aloud/ to himself
don't run/in the opposite direction
but run toward him/for he is a poet!
You have nothing to fear/from a poet
but the truth
Ted Joans
#21. Being one's true and honest self can often be dangerous; and poetry should always be a place where, if only between the pages, that danger and energy and fear and excitement and love can fizz and spark without ever threatening to burn something down.
Andrew McMillan
#22. Fear is the vehicle in which love can do its worst.
Phil Volatile
#23. Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.
Ian Fleming
#24. Infectious smile has infected tears
The laughter strikes with spears
I am not dear and they are not sincere
Feeling fear
I must perform
For when I stop the stage is gone
Louis Cecile
#25. Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
Wilfred Owen
#26. Life is first boredom, then fear.
whether or not we use it, it goes,
and leaves what something hidden from us chose,
and age, and then the only end of age.
Philip Larkin
#27. Focus on beauty, not on fear
dance with stress to let it clear
Debasish Mridha
#28. A coward is a servant of his fears.
A hero enslaves his fears.
Lera Auerbach
#30. they told her, "fear the reaper."
she laughed to herself and muttered, 'baby, death ain't nothing' more than a quick fuck.
a little bit of silence after he comes.
Taylor Rhodes
#31. All my contemporaries
hundred-and-fivers or convicts
will tell you how we lived
in barely sentient fear, raising
children for the executioner,
prison, or the torture chamber.
Anna Akhmatova
#32. Hate blows a bubble of despair into
hugeness world system universe and bang
-fear buries a tomorrow under woe
and up comes yesterday most green and young
E. E. Cummings
#33. Life with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear,
Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.
Robert Browning
#34. But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place
Where the banished poet has gone
And the night that comes with quickened pace
Is ignorant of dawn.
Anna Akhmatova
#35. Change like a tree
When it is winter
Don't complain or fear
Just wait for the spring
To bloom and sing
Debasish Mridha
#36. ... why would Caesar fear Ovid, except for knowing that neither his divinity nor all his legions could protect him from a good line of poetry.
Tobias Wolff
#37. My choices are rejections, since there is no other way,
but what I reject is more numerous,
denser, more demanding than before.
A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable loss.
Wislawa Szymborska
#38. Sipping tea
with glee
beneath a gooseberry tree.
I wish Alice were here.
Oh, my dear,
do not fear,
she will be.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#39. concept: me, sleeping in a forest. flowers grow from my scars. moss fills the lonely parts of me. ferns are growing in the pit of my stomach where fear used to live
L.J. Buchanan
#40. We live in a world full of fear and hatred, where it is our custom to conquer our own fear and hatred
Samuel Lebea
#41. Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
For fear of little men.
William Allingham
#42. And not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again ... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now ...
John Geddes
#43. The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Johnny Depp
#45. The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality.
Muriel Rukeyser
#46. Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside ... then there come's love ... and increasingly; the fear of death.
John Betjeman
#48. Climbed that roost, alighted right there.
Made mush of his head for the onlooker bears.
A two-pronger her prize, a meat most rare.
Do-gooders will pay. Do-gooders will fear.
Darrell Drake
#49. Ah, love, this is fear. This is fear and syllables
and the beginnings of beauty.
Robert Hass
#51. Silly little monster" all would say.
They'd scratch its head and turn away
until it snatched their tiny noses.
They couldn't even smell the roses!
Ever after, every child
dreaded monsters, fierce or mild.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#52. We are all the fools of time and terror: Days
Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live,
Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
George Gordon Byron
#53. It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Ezra Pound
#54. Foggy nights bring some comfort.
He can get lost in the mist
and there is no one to stare or question.
Susie Clevenger
#55. The same things that make you unique in this world, make you a target for the archers consumed by fear and jealousy.
Jason E. Hodges
#56. Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds,
epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#57. I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out politician, or the owner of a small bistro. But I fear that, without poetry, I would have simply been going through the motions.
Denise Duhamel
#58. No man has the courage to approach her or initiate questions she herself rise, for all men fear a fascist and she can very well be a fascist's wife.
Mie Hansson
#59. Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear
is an orphaned part of us
seeking joy,
some disowned shadow
wanting to return
to the light
and home
of ourselves.
Jacob Nordby
#60. But time brought healing,
Downsizing of ego,
And freedom from bondage.
Alas, neither damnation
Nor salvation
Would come -
No terror of some hellish fiend
Or apocalyptic fury
Upon his command.
There was nothing to fear,
And there was everything.
Kyrian Lyndon
#61. Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.
Mary Crow
#62. Never fear the thing you feel
Only by love is life made real
Sara Teasdale
#63. All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
#64. The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
Adrienne Rich
#65. If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been left by fear, anger and hate, will be taken over by your love, your sensitivity, your compassion, your creativity. This is the whole alchemy of changing base metals into gold.
Rajneesh
#66. hear not what I say
like the howl, words fade away
only fear remains
Kurt Brindley
#67. Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.
Anne Waldman
#68. The fear of love can be
replaced by the love of fear
Michael Biondi
#69. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
Theodore Roethke
#70. The things we fear about poetry are the things that are good about poetry.
Jake Adam York
#71. I do not want to sleep
for fear I might miss the twinkle of the brightest star
for fear I may never know
how the moon glimmers, in the darkest hour.
Sanober Khan
#72. You belong to everything and
everything belongs to you.
You are in the beauty of a flower.
You are also in the nourishing spring shower.
Then why do you fear to change?
You just lose your name
and your inner beauty remains the same.
Debasish Mridha
#73. Destroy the
fear in you
before the
fear destroys
the life
before you.
Robert M. Drake
#74. We distance ourselves for protection,
Wear scarves when it's cold.
What seems most outlandish in our autobiography
Is what really happened.
Steve Abbott
#75. But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on to ask me what I write, and to answer "poetry" would embarrass us both, for we both know that nobody can earn a living simply by writing poetry.
W. H. Auden
#76. (She catches sight of herself in the mirror. Go in fear of hyperbole)
Ann Lauterbach
#77. Since the thing perhaps is
to eat flowers and not to be afraid
E. E. Cummings
#78. Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.
Lenore Kandel
#79. If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#80. The esteemed Reverend Rufus Griswold is everything I aspire to be, though I fear I shall never soar so quite as high as he
-from his resignation letter to Graham's Magazine
Edgar Allan Poe
#81. Oh, the things we invent when we are scared
and want to be rescued.
Richard Siken
#82. Love is fear but fear is death
Kruz Lex
#83. Maple. Maypole
Catch and carry.
Ash and Ember.
Elderberry.
Woolen. Woman.
Moon at night.
Willow. Window.
Candlelight.
Fallow farrow.
Ash and oak.
Bide and borrow.
Chimney smoke.
Barrel. Barley.
Stone and stave.
Wind and water.
Misbehave.
Patrick Rothfuss
#84. Dear friend, I have searched all night
through each burnt paper,
but I fear I will never find
the formula to let you die
Leonard Cohen
#85. Pierre, who knew she was very stupid, sometimes attended, with a strange feeling of perplexity and fear, her evenings and dinner parties, where politics, poetry, and philosophy were discussed. At
Leo Tolstoy
#86. Fragments of a conversation she had left a little earlier (on Rilke, not Rilke's poetry but Rilke the man, who refused to be psychoanalyzed for fear of purging his genius);
William Gaddis
#87. Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.
Phil Kaye
#88. In every cry of every man,
In every infant's cry of fear,
In every voice, in every ban,
The mind-forged manacles I hear.
William Blake
#89. And all we feared inside the night / shows true in morning's biased light.
Garth Von Buchholz
#91. Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.
Stephen King
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