National Poetry Day Quotes

#1. I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things.

John Fuller

#2. I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

Tinie Tempah

#3. To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.

Aberjhani

#4. It was sort of good it happened because it broke the ice with everyone.

Dannii Minogue

#5. A handsome prince, such as yourself, deserves someone who is no less than one hundred percent dedicated to him.

Colleen Houck

#6. Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

Aberjhani

#7. Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life's journey and with Elemental's Power of Illuminated Love, possibly recognize and celebrate something you had not been able to recognize or celebrate before.

Luther E. Vann

#8. With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short; you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.

Bruce Cameron

#9. In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

Aberjhani

#10. Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.

Aberjhani

#11. Youth is always an enemy to the old ...

Ellen Glasgow

#12. September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror's sting,
rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles' wings.
from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001

Aberjhani

#13. Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns.

Antonio Damasio

#14. A person's relationship with food is one of their most important relationships.

Ned Vizzini

#15. I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.

Aberjhani

#16. On faith's battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation's hot rage.

Aberjhani

#17. These problems have been here so long that the only way I've been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.

Mark Bowden

#18. as the most stupendous objects in nature are but vast collections of minute particles, so the slightest and least considered trifles make up the sum of human happiness or misery.

Charles Dickens