Hero Poetry Quotes

#1. ...Thus have I had thee as a dream doth flatter: in sleep a king but waking no such matter.

William Shakespeare

#2. Romantic haste in drama brings
tears and sighs when the hero dies
but the curtain fall is final
when in life we take the tragic way
The sunset too is a glorious thing
but with it ends the day.

C. P. Klapper

#3. Everyone calls him Blockhead
No one sings his praises
Or takes him to heart ...
That is the kind of person
I want to be

Kenji Miyazawa

#4. When I'm writing, I try to have the mask of my character on as I'm walking through the world.

Stewart O'Nan

#5. Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race.

Stanley Kunitz

#6. Without roots a tree, no matter how tall, cannot stand.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. Pain distills. The clarifying emotion.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that it's the purest amber of my one way ...

Doseone

#9. I looked up at the video camera and stared. Then raised my hand and gave it the middle finger.
"I thought you were going to give it the District Twelve salute," Jamie said.

Michelle Hodkin

#10. For your sake I have braved the glen, and had to do with goblin merchant men. Eat me, drink me, love me. Hero, Wolf, make much of me. With clasping arms and cautioning lips, with tingling cheeks and fingertips, cooing all together.

April Genevieve Tucholke

#11. People of the United States of America, your Congress is bought, your Congress is incapable of making legislation on healthcare, banking, trade, or taxes because if they do it, they will lose their political funding and they won't do it.

Dylan Ratigan

#12. Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?

Sherwood Smith

#13. Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. Reluctant hero, drafted again each Fourth
of July, I'll bow and remember you. Who
shall we follow next? Who shall we kill
next time?

William Stafford

#15. A coward is a servant of his fears.
A hero enslaves his fears.

Lera Auerbach

#16. Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect ... runs into fable, personifies every fact ...

Marsilio Ficino

#17. Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.

Mason Cooley

#18. For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.

Washington Irving