Magic Poetry Quotes

#1. Although you be, as I am, one of those
Who feel a Christian ought to write in prose,
For poetry is magic: born in sin, you
May read it to exorcies the Gentile in you.

W. H. Auden

#2. I wish for magic this season,
laughter and fun.
I wish for mistletoe kisses-
those sparkly ones.

Cheri Bauer

#3. Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created.

Robert Bridges

#4. When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry.

Steve Martin

#5. Magic, she was discovering, was like poetry. Once you understood the logic, the meter, the rhyme behind it, you could embellish upon it and make it your own. On

Elise Kova

#6. Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

John Sterling

#7. My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design].

Philippe Starck

#8. She could feel magic in the quiet spring day, like a sorcerer's far-off voice, and lines of poetry floated over her mind as if they were strands of spider-web.

Stella Gibbons

#9. Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

Dennis Gabor

#10. I am lover of words ... I am wickedly drunk with the magic of words ... the poetic nature whispers through and to my very heart and soul.

Jennifer Hillman

#11. This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey)

Kellie Elmore

#12. Poetry, just because it is poetry, doesn't mean it is some kind of magic spell.

Franz Wright

#13. Walk a bit further.
There is a different land not far away.
The people in it have the magic to break the icy fingers of the great death.
I heard that you don't even have to pay.
However, you have to find their door.
It is only found by those who pay the other price.

Donna Goddard

#14. I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic key as much to prose as to poetry.

Christopher Hitchens

#15. When we talk about Poetry, with a capital P, we are apt to think only of the more intense emotions or the more magical phrase: nevertheless there are a great many casements in poetry which are not magic, and which do not open on the foam of perilous seas, but are perfectly good windows for all that.

T. S. Eliot

#16. The magic fades too fast
the scent of summer never lasts
the nights turn hollow and vast
but nothing remains...nothing lasts.

Sanober Khan

#17. Imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.

Ted Hughes

#18. The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

Caitriona Balfe

#19. They were full of mysteries and secrets, like ... like poems turned into landscapes."
"'Poems turned into landscapes.'" he murmured with a slight smile. "And what of Vestenveld's gardens? Do you see poems in them?"
"Your gardens are like your country's poetry. Very frilly and organized.

Jaclyn Dolamore

#20. We were not for underestimating magic - a life-conductor like the sap between the tree-stem and the bark. We know that it keeps dullness out of religion and poetry. It is probable that without it we might die.

Freya Stark

#21. It was as though she practiced some shameful art: black magic, voodoo, or poetry.

Valerie Martin

#22. Black drinks the sun and draws all colours into it.
I am bleached white, my truant love. Come back,
and stain me with the intensity of black.

Robert Graves

#23. For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both alike was evocation of energies and knowledge from beyond normal consciousness.

Kathleen Raine

#24. This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.

Terence McKenna

#25. The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic
with divine creatures
who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

Charles Bukowski

#26. Love is the magic ink, which transform everyday life into a poetry.

Debasish Mridha

#27. In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

Benjamin Disraeli

#28. I'm sorry, man, but I've got magic. I've got poetry in my fingertips. Most of the time - and this includes naps - I'm an F-18, bro. And I will destroy you in the air. I will deploy my ordinance to the ground.

Charlie Sheen

#29. Magic Words"
"Silly words cause trills
because they're ludicrous and funny.
Happy words paint endless smiles
and swallow troubles whole.
Thoughtful words are thus
because they make the day feel sunny.
But hurtful words are such
that pierce the heart and weigh the soul.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#30. Loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars ...

John Geddes

#31. your smile.
is the ultimate
golden dream.
all the poems
in the world
are waking up from.

Sanober Khan

#32. I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips.

Charlie Sheen

#33. The same that oft-times hath
charm'd magic casements,
opening on the foam
of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.

John Keats

#34. Poetry is not a mere expression of a poet's self, but an enchantment, a spell of the muse, the inspiration. Poetry is thus magic and magic is poetry.

Shilpa Sandesh

#35. 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

#36. Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. ... All those things.

R.M. Engelhardt

#37. Watch carefully
the magic that occurs
when you give a person
enough comfort
to just be themselves.

Atticus Poetry

#38. 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

#39. There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

Cate Tiernan

#40. 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

#41. About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that could eventually be shared with other artists to start them off further on in the process and to get them into the poetry faster.

Marco Tempest

#42. Develop distinct habits of wreaking havoc on any stinking thinking addicted to launching mental missiles aimed at sinking your unique magic.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#43. That was her magic -
she could still see
the sunset
even on those
darkest days.

Atticus Poetry

#44. Or he could take the step out into nothingness and choose Magnus, the far stranger poetry of him, his brilliance and anger, his sulks and joys, the extraordinary abilities of his magic and the no less breathtaking magic of the extraordinary way he loved.

Cassandra Clare

#45. I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.

David Knopfler

#46. He knew that music spoke to the emotions, not the intellect. The heart was where people truly lived, and died. He also knew that this magic that music and poetry were said to possess was the power to touch that heart.

Ian C. Esslemont

#47. Come closer, my dears, let me give you a warning,
Of the fate that befalls those who stay out past morning,
In the darkest hours before the dawn,
When witches roam and demons spawn,
And children die with spirit gone,
Magicked away in the gloaming.

Nenia Campbell

#48. Paranormal. It rolls off the tongue with such poetry but it means something like, beyond normal. There is nothing paranormal about magic. Magic is the norm.
- Penny Sweeney
Magic All Around

Marcy L. Peska

#49. Fall in love
with the energy
of the mornings

trace your fingers
along the lull
of the afternoons

take the spirit
of the evenings
in your arms
kiss it deeply

and then
make love
to the tranquility
of the nights.

Sanober Khan

#50. [Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together.

Elizabeth Hand

#51. Poetry is that magic which consists in awakening sensations with the help of a combination of sounds ... that sorcery by which ideas are necessarily communicated to us, in a definite way, by words which nevertheless do not express them.

John Banville

#52. Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.

James Broughton

#53. Fact is not truth, but a poet who willfully defies fact cannot achieve truth.

Robert Graves

#54. If you are a dreamer come in
If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar
A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer
If youre a pretender com sit by my fire
For we have some flax golden tales to spin
Come in!
Come in!

Shel Silverstein

#55. your gaze
across
my cheeks

turned them
into
strawberry fields.

Sanober Khan

#56. Dreams are chequered commentary made in sleep
Along the deeps of our desires,
moving like riddles through a magic glade
Lightly they touch the leap of hidden fires.

John Bradburn

#57. At the end of all things, why do lovers break up?

Because love is magic. You have to believe, for it to exist.

Timothy Joshua

#58. Don't worry -
you see,
to some you are magic.

Atticus Poetry