Top 55 Freedom Poetry Quotes
#1. There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.
Rumi
#2. Poetry never makes any money, and so there's no pressure to appeal to an audience. That makes a lot of things about being a poet difficult, but it also means freedom to write whatever you want to write, however you want to write it.
Garth Greenwell
#4. And oft the blessed time foretells
When all men shall be free;
And musical, as silver bells,
Their falling chains shall be.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#5. I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.
Aldous Huxley
#6. Foggy nights bring some comfort.
He can get lost in the mist
and there is no one to stare or question.
Susie Clevenger
#7. In reading, in literature and poetry, I found an artistic freedom that I didn't see at Woolworth's. I would read everything from Shakespeare to science fiction ... sometimes a book a day.
Frederick Lenz
#8. Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things
Ilyas Kassam
#9. I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
Lucy Larcom
#10. 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
#11. You are only as free as you think you are and freedom will always be as real as you believe it to be.
Robert M. Drake
#12. Free diving is not entirely free: to go down you leave behind
Brook Emery
#13. There's a freedom to simplicity;
a love that only grow in small spaces
killing yourself ever so slowly
to put a smile on your child's face
from born to fly
K.R. Albers
#14. The true poetic urge is the desire for absolute freedom.
Marty Rubin
#15. Sometimes, when we cannot attain the freedom we are fighting for, we free ourselves b carving a new path to freedom.
Christina Westover
#16. Chance is your god
Though you're falling free you will land hard
Criss Jami
#17. Lissen Percepied do you believe in freedom?-then say what you want, it's poetry, poetry, all of it is poetry, great prose is poetry, great verse is poetry.
Jack Kerouac
#18. The Bane
... where coxswain's dirt
and seaman's shirts
brushed bawdily upon her chest ...
Muse
#19. I am a butterfly poet
birthed from pain
flying with the freedom
of my verses.
Susie Clevenger
#20. believe me when i say this.
when you love
someone.
you can
travel the world
in their laugh.
Sanober Khan
#21. Love does not claim materialistic possession of any kind, it yields complete freedom.
Santosh Kalwar
#22. I shall have my lasso, I shall lead the course;
I recognize it's time to mount a different horse.
Mie Hansson
#23. If freedom is free and none need worry, then what blood drops for thee?
Ryan Goodrich
#24. When sighs are hypnotized by sorrow
Happy moments you need to borrow
From a little child or from a bird
Who has the wild freedom of soul: stirred!
Munia Khan
#25. Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour.
Jason E. Hodges
#26. LIBERTY!
FREEDOM!
DEMOCRACY!
True anyhow no matter how many
Liars use those words.
Langston Hughes
#28. There is a war
in your name
I have martyred you
sold you
to freedom
oh, Freedom
Banoo Zan
#29. But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
Aldous Huxley
#30. In this quiet place on a quiet street
where no one ever finds us
gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain.
from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street
Aberjhani
#32. They who in folly or mere greed
Enslaved religion, markets, laws,
Borrow our language now and bid
Us to speak up in freedom's cause.
Cecil Day-Lewis
#33. Every poet ... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
Thomas Carlyle
#34. Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.
Norman O. Brown
#35. Freedom is slavery some poets tell us.
Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth,
Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free.
Robert Frost
#36. holding
the evening
tremblingly close
to me
i weep
into
the sun
letting
the burden
of hope
lift off my chest
i realize
this is what
it means
to be free.
Sanober Khan
#37. We each bring our own unique beauty to the world, and how blessed we are to have the freedom to find that beauty in each other.
Heather K. O'Hara
#38. The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.
May Swenson
#39. Dance,' they told me, and I stood still,
and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced.
'Pray,' they said, and I laughed,
covering myself in the earth's brightnesses,
and then stole off gray into the midst of a revel,
and prayed like an orphan.
Wendell Berry
#40. Inspiration.
five minutes in the back of a greyhound bus;
the world passing by.
a gateway to freedom.
the american dream.
from the american dream
K.R. Albers
#41. Freedom is the dream you dream
While putting thought in chains again
Giacomo Leopardi
#42. Some find freedom in comfort
others find comfort in freedom
Mie Hansson
#43. You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.
Madeleine L'Engle
#44. There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?
Erin Hanson
#45. He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he'd come back one day I know a broken promise from a right one for I have used them myself and there is no coming back. Minds like ours are can't be tamed and the price for freedom is the price we pay.
Charlotte Eriksson
#46. Poetry in the dark of the night you are my torch.
Poetry makes you believe in the freedom in your own home.
Poetry causes the increase of the human race.
Poetry ennobles the spirit of man.
Poetry is like a noble fragrance that caresses your soul.
Poetry is the royal essence of beauty.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#47. I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed and rich, and I like the feeling of having to do that, having to make the language tight and still free, as if the deepest freedom is created by the restrictions.
Pattiann Rogers
#48. Birds shouldn't be able to find tears
They are the definition of freedom
Maddy Kobar
#49. May you
always have
open
breezy spaces
in your mind.
Sanober Khan
#50. Bridge burned from end to end,
and I don't miss you anymore.
You delivered silence
I've birthed freedom.
Jessica Kristie
#51. There ain't no money in poetry, that's what keeps the poet free. I've had all the freedom I can stand.
Guy Clark
#52. The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend upon it for their daily bread, and the highest form of literature, poetry, brings no wealth to the singer. For producing your best work also you will require some leisure and freedom from sordid care.
Oscar Wilde
#53. Chaos,
leave me never,
keep me wild
and keep me free
so that my
brokenness will be,
the only beauty
the world will see.
Robert M. Drake
#54. Degraded bird, I give you back your eyes forever, ascend now whither you are tossed;
Forsake this wrist, forsake this rhyme;
Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost,
But climb.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#55. I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry at its heart.
Philip Guston
