Poetry Collection Quotes

#1. What you cannot lay to rest
Must therefore be laid aside

From the poem "Moors Child" published in the poetry collection "Cats and Other Myths

J.S. Watts

#2. I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

Neil Gaiman

#3. Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me." from the song "In the Blackness" in the poetry collection "Terra Affirmative".

Jay Woodman

#4. Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.

John Hoeven

#5. God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

Ellen G. White

#6. Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.

Dean Koontz

#7. I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it.

Tom Glazer

#8. I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. The house burned in the fire. Her house. Her prison of lies and of denial. Her American dream turned nightmare."~Unbreakable Heart

Kimberly Kinrade

#10. There are a couple of utterly important rules to writing anything, whether it's a novel, a short story or a collection of poetry. And they're really the only rules.
1: Quit talking about it and start.
2: Focus and finish it.

Nicholas Trandahl

#11. He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was ...

Louis L'Amour

#12. What's the most important right attitude to have? It's caring enough about the quality of your work to want to make it better.

Douglas O. Linder

#13. Christ, what a sad collection of losers, mm?'

'Too much time on their hands, mate. Leads to poetry.

Garth Ennis

#14. Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another.

Thomas Buchanan Read

#15. I sleep better at night knowing that scientists can clone sheep.

Jeff Ayres

#16. Being president is as difficult as writing the perfect poem. And being president is as effortless as writing the perfect poem. Always a Reckoning, my first collection of poetry, was described by Booklist as 'keenly evocative.'

Jimmy Carter

#17. So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

Aaron Neville

#18. Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

Juvenal

#19. She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes." ~Once Upon A Time There Was A Girl

Kimberly Kinrade

#20. I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.

Haruki Murakami

#21. When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.

Amy Lowell

#22. A poetess is a collection of unfinished thoughts. She is a tormented phantom, a harbinger of life and death. Those who peer deep inside her catacombs will learn that even madness is a virtue.

Nichole McElhaney

#23. The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.'

Alexis Ohanian

#24. Money is neither good nor bad. It simply amplifies what is in the heart of the one who controls it.

John Avanzini

#25. Ultimately, culture, secular and otherwise, is a collection of survival strategies. The things that look like decoration - poetry, novels, music, dancing - if you strip away all the layers, are mechanisms for coping, surviving, understanding.

Ben Fountain

#26. Another one of your quippy japes?

Jasper Fforde