Poetry Church Quotes

#1. You're hopeless dumb
if you blindly tweet rumours
and get ripped on-line.

Ibnu Din Assingkiri

#2. Life is a rotten lottery.

John Waters

#3. The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.

James Madison

#4. When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

Ellen Hopkins

#5. It's exciting to hear them talking about poetry and science and philosophy - about Shakespeare and Milton; Newton and Einstein and Freud; about Plato and Hegel and Kant, and all the other names that echo like great church bells in my mind.

Daniel Keyes

#6. Take what the old-church
found in Mithra's tomb,
candle and script and bell,
take what the new-church spat upon
and broke and shattered.

Hilda Doolittle

#7. You taste like metal & blood,
kiss like a man's last gunshot.
I could find religion in your face.
Build a church in the palms of your hands.

Elisabeth Hewer

#8. The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

Alice McDermott

#9. The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not to notice. It is really beautiful, and musical in its poetry.

Alan Green

#10. I'm more determined than ever that my husband's dream will become a reality.

Coretta Scott King

#11. Spiritual power and spiritual authority notoriously shade over into both politics and poetry.

Harold Bloom

#12. I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

Robert Battle

#13. Silence is the language of faith. Action--be it church or charity, politics or poetry--is the translation.

Christian Wiman

#14. The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

George William Curtis

#15. Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church ...

John Geddes

#16. True love is giving, not getting. Someone has said, "Love can always wait to give, but lust can never wait to get.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss