Irony Poetry Quotes

#1. I am waiting for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe for anarchy

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#2. I didn't know who to
believe
but
one thing I do
know: when a man is
living
many claim relationships
that are hardly
so
and after he dies, well,
then it's everybody's
party.

Charles Bukowski

#3. How do you like your blue-eyed boy Mr Death?

E. E. Cummings

#4. The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

Philip Levine

#5. You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.

Fred Durst

#6. Logic has rid us of the absurdity of our clothes. That's progress, no irony, only now we are cold. Hale and ill trade bodies with unusual willingness, while in midair souls tangle. The young start out disgusted and Poetry is left to the memo-writers.

Odysseus Elytis

#7. The next morning I had Twentieth-Century American Poetry at MCC. This old woman gave a lecture wherein she managed to talk for ninety minutes about Sylvia Plath without ever once quoting a single word of Sylvia Plath.

John Green

#8. I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub

Charles Bukowski

#9. People tell you to believe in yourself for your whole life, then call you arrogant when you begin taking their advice.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#10. Poetry teaches us things that cannot be learned in prose, such as certain kinds of irony or the importance of the unsaid. The most important element of any poem is the part that is left unsaid. So the poetry frames the experience that lies beyond naming.

Sam Hamill

#11. I paid, got up, walked
to the door, opened
it.
I heard the man
say, "that guy's
nuts."
out on the street I
walked north
feeling
curiously
honored.

Charles Bukowski

#12. Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music.

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