Heart Poetry Quotes

#1. What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

Charles Bukowski

#2. In my heart, poetry screams, "I exist!

Delano Johnson

#3. Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

Ellen Hopkins

#4. Poetry is more than just art, it's like super glue to a broken heart. It can also be a light when your life seems a little dark.

Delano Johnson

#5. keep following your heart.
it won't always be easy, but it'll be the most important thing you'll do.

AVA.

#6. So goes the hard way- the (fall a)part way-the (break a) heart way.

Kami Garcia

#7. It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.

Meg Rosoff

#8. 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

#9. Let my name perish,
the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music,
and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.

Sidney Lanier

#10. This is what I have.
The dull hangover of waiting,
the blush of my heart on the damp grass,
the flower-faced moon.
A gull broods on the shore
where a moment ago there were two.
Softly my right hand fondles my left hand
as though it were you.

Mary Oliver

#11. O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!
Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?
Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!

William Shakespeare

#12. My wild heart craves shadows. Like a bat unfurling its wings, I open myself to darkness; I open myself to truth.

Nichole McElhaney

#13. Poetry can change hearts but not the politician's heart.

Marty Rubin

#14. Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am

Christopher Poindexter

#15. What exists in this heart is not imaginary. This hand would not grasp air in trying to hold you, nor this eye blind itself in searching for you in vain.

Chrissy Moon

#16. 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

#17. Their heart grew cold
they let their wings down

Sappho

#18. A poem in the heart is worth
more than a million dollars
in the bank account.

Sanober Khan

#19. I may not always be with you
But when we're far apart
Remember you will be with me
Right inside my heart

Marc Wambolt

#20. How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#21. If it weren't for you, mornings wouldn't be so comforting - slippers wouldn't scrape through the rooms of my heart ...

John Geddes

#22. The temporal heart resonates at whispers
From a Truth overarching
Of whose countenance
Timeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom

Ashim Shanker

#23. I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.

Stella Benson

#24. Once in a while i am struck
all over again... by just how blue
the sky appears .. on wind-played
autumn mornings, blue enough

to bruise a heart.

Sanober Khan

#25. The ink of a pen is simply
the blood of a heart

Michael Biondi

#26. For each of us is
A separate miracle
In a collective miracle

Brought together
For a moment
By a group of notes
And a scan of words

From the heart
Of one
Who dares
To think

That others
Might feel
As he feels

Leonard Nimoy

#27. You can use words if you wish, but I'm warning you - I've learned how to read your heart ...

John Geddes

#28. Great poetry, whether written in Greek or in English, needs no other interpreter than a responsive heart.

Helen Keller

#29. That night, stargazing on the deck with Dad, eyes on the sky, he pointed out Orion, Betelgeuse. "It's an art to read the stars, baby."
I never wanted to leave his side-my sure song for so long. Now? His eyes are stone changed. Just looking at them hurts my heart.

Norma Fox Mazer

#30. Your spiritual heart imbibes in the primordial light and, as you dance towards infinity, you begin to see all things are held together by the power of love.

Earthschool Harmony

#31. The way you walked away
The way you stopped and waited
All that time
What was in your heart?
A laugh?
A sarcasm?

Couldn't we be lovers?
Though we have never walked together

Shasika Amali Munasinghe

#32. Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand him, provided that he has done his best to be intelligible. Difficult thoughts are quite distinct from difficult words. Difficulty of thought is the very heart of poetry.

Alice Meynell

#33. say the words out loud / yes / the ones that make your heart pinch / say them out loud

N.L. Shompole

#34. there is some aching
that will only heal...
in the mosque of sleep.

Sanober Khan

#35. A fruitless year, take a fearless heart
One that blooms late will flourish in the dark

Criss Jami

#36. O stand, stand at the window
As the tears scald and start;
You shall love your crooked neighbour
With your crooked heart.

W. H. Auden

#37. I feel often very close to the ecstasy and anguish which lie at the very heart of poetry - I am writing a lot.

May Sarton

#38. let my heart always be
like it is...this very moment
ready to explode...with love
a violent rainstorm...
with no stream
no ocean vast enough
to flow into.

Sanober Khan

#39. Her hair gives dawn it's fire, her eyes give dusk her soul"
He knew how to use his voice to melt a girl's heart, to make a girl want to believe. I steeled myself against the seductive words. "Excuse me?"
"It's a line of poetry describing a beautiful girl, one who doesn't seem to know it.

Elizabeth Chandler

#40. The field of action of a photograph should be that chessboard of the heart and mind upon which poetry and art have always operated

Frederick Sommer

#41. this heart yearns...
for the salt of unsmelt air
unswept thunderstorms...
unknown adventures.

Sanober Khan

#42. I long for
a little life,
an everyday life,
a splash of sunlight
through a window
a smile from a stranger -
a heart to hold in mine.

Menna Van Praag

#43. i know it all ends the same,
but i was interested in seeing
how you would break my heart.

AVA.

#44. You may continue to call it a breakup. I will continue to call it an exorcism.

Pleasefindthis

#45. So be we king
or be we bum
the reed still whistles
the heart still hums

Patti Smith

#46. For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge,
I live alone, I look to die alone:
Yet sometimes, when a wind sighs through the sedge,
Ghosts of my buried years, and friends come back,
My heart goes sighing after swallows flown
On sometime summer's unreturning track.

Christina Rossetti

#47. THERE is something in the autumn that is native to my blood -
Touch of manner, hint of mood;
And my heart is like a rhyme,
With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.

Bliss Carman

#48. Please let me know if I am not here
Let me know if I fail to find you there
For before the dawn I leave the night behind me
And before my heart I let you leave me behind.

Munia Khan

#49. Dreaming of another time,
Dreaming of clasping your hands so tight,
Dreaming of another time,
Dreaming of the shipwreck that is in my heart would end

Tanzy Sayadi

#50. Farewell to thee! but not farewell
To all my fondest thoughts of thee:
Within my heart they still shall dwell;
And they shall cheer and comfort me.

Anne Bronte

#51. Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one,
and starts a war in the soul of another.

Jenim Dibie

#52. there are some poems
that we leave behind
some that leave us behind

while some just live
silently
in the heart

crumble, sometimes
dwindle
disappear
die

and are reborn
when you smile again.

Sanober Khan

#53. Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.

Ja Rule

#54. I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.

Gertrude Atherton

#55. If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.

Brad Leithauser

#56. We were born for sorrow
we were born for pain
we were born for loss
but we were also born to love
from follow your heart

K.R. Albers

#57. Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.

Lawrence Durrell

#58. I have these knives in my chest that can't become words.

Jenim Dibie

#59. The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words needed to be arranged, fussed with, put in the order of his heart.

Kate DiCamillo

#60. I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the way in." ~from an interview in Narrative magazine

Donald Hall

#61. I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.

Anthony Mackie

#62. A life without poetry is a life without heart, without laughter, without crying - it's a life without feelings.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#63. To have been where you have been
And to still have joy,
Dazzling in your heart,
Now there's a thing to make the whole world smile.

Scott Hastie

#64. stronger than mountains.
a place where my heart
feels the safest-
underneath his shirt.

Sanober Khan

#65. Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

Rumi

#66. The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.

Rabindranath Tagore

#67. A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

Thomas Carlyle

#68. Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies.

Amy Lowell

#69. Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend.

Rumi

#70. Read a poem at a time, or two, or all, but give them time to sink into your heart. Read them again, read a portion, and stop and ponder. Visualize. Take it slow; let the poem show you what lies in your own heart. Let it fuel the words from within.

Salil Jha

#71. I now know how your anger
came from skeletons
that rattled in your heart
and you couldn't escape them.

Susie Clevenger

#72. Love did not die. I still create your image to my heart every solitary night.

Chrissy Moon

#73. Pure poetry in motion. A swift-moving, heartfelt tale of love and loss, two stories intersecting-an d connecting-by magic. Michelle Baker is a born poet, and a born writer. The Canoe is just the start of what I hope to be a long idyllic journey through the love and soul of the human heart.

Trent Zelazny

#74. Sometimes I struggle. Sometimes I falter. Sometimes I live in gray. But always I remember the yarrow you've grown in the spaces of my rib cage. I now love with roses from my heart, with lilacs from my mouth.

Elijah Noble El

#75. Ripe summer's sweetness dripped
in pearls from every tree
and into my opened heart
a little drop ran down.

Edith Sodergran

#76. Drop the mind that thinks in prose; revive another kind of mind that thinks in poetry Put aside all your expertise in syllogism; let songs be your way of life. Move from intellect to intuition, from the head to the heart, because the heart is closer to the mysteries.

Osho

#77. A poem begins as an inner tune in the heart that beats with emotions and words waiting to be played with love.

Debasish Mridha

#78. Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Andres Segovia

#79. To tell others that
It is a rumor
Will not do.
When your own heart asks
How will you respond?

Gosen Wakashu

#80. It is in the nature of poetry that it speaks to the heart as well as the head.

Malcolm Guite

#81. True wealth comes from within the heart which is the most valuable masterpiece you have that's underneath your skin

Martellis Thurmand

#82. Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#83. The Dream Keeper
Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamer,
Bring me all your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud-cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.

Langston Hughes

#84. they say people only hear what they want to hear,
but i don't know if that is always true, i've been wanting to hear your heart and it's as silent as the moon.

AVA.

#85. When true love broke my heart in half,
I took the whiskey from the shelf,
And told my neighbors when to laugh.
I keep a dog, and bark myself.

Theodore Roethke

#86. Every morning
before the birds start
trilling me their stories,
I give birth to a new love
through my same old heart
when a lake's placidity
finds life in the swans breath
Only for you...

From the poem 'Only For You

Munia Khan

#87. I searched for my own heart
and long after I had lost my way
in the days trailing past with their foliage
in the aloof sky blue with distance
I thought I'd find my heart
where I'd kept your eyes two brown butterflies
and I saw the swallows swoop
and shadows starlings

Ingrid Jonker

#88. The heart's optimism always
conquers reality

J.S. Watts

#89. Because I didn't want to forget was the heart and soul of poetry.

Andre Aciman

#90. Choose wisely
From those who start
A fire in your heart.

Some may burn you to shreds,
While you were looking for warmth.

Saiber

#91. She has a charm that is incomparable. She has a beautiful heart that flows with love. And she has a sensitive soul that enthralls with magic. She was the spark I had been waiting for all my life.

Avijeet Das

#92. choose your words well
(be honest, be true)
but
above all else,
be kind

Bryonie Wise

#93. They were living exciting, crazy, queer lives full of poetry and camaraderie and heart-seizing crushes. I mean, not that night, but generally. That night they were bored.

Michelle Tea

#94. The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean-
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.

Robert Frost

#95. I am not a broken heart,
and I am not your fault.

Charlotte Eriksson

#96. If lighthouse becomes a burning candle,
flickered upon ocean's insanity.
Your sailing heart there anchors to handle
the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.

Munia Khan

#97. The moon is my fear.
The sun is my heart afire.
The stars, my love songs.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#98. We're all just wandering souls searching for a heart to call home...

I. Wimana C.

#99. Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Goldwin Smith

#100. We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic.

E. Merrill Root