Top 16 Poetry Excerpt Quotes

#1. And Death it calls as the stone crow breaks. Streaks of blood malform its face.

Death becomes its withered eyes and the shadows whisper, "Lies."

Excerpt from "Lies

Angela B. Chrysler

#2. I met you soon after and i could never think of touching anyone else.

Katie McGarry

#3. I have friends, I'm from Texas originally, and they follow me and they keep up with what I'm doing.

Kirby Bliss Blanton

#4. Sixteen is a hard time. A lot of kids are experimenting with things.

Leslie Mann

#5. The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#6. Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

James Joyce

#7. the song of the dead
heavy as rain
on the wide banana leaves
hard as drums

Antonio Cisneros

#8. How long the thick dark clouds can prevent the truth from shining? The truth is an arrow that can pass through any shield!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. What air is there left to breathe

Antonio Cisneros

#10. You are not dead
You are not dead
You are not dead
You are still
Here

Christopher Lilley

#11. Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

Truman Capote

#12. And the silence, it cuts me. The silence, it gores me,

Spilling my blood as the rain falls on me.

Excerpt from "Silence

Angela B. Chrysler

#13. Let love be the gravestone
Lying on my life.

Anna Akhmatova

#14. If ever I was meant to love, my heart would beat for you,"

Need not the Raven say to Crow beneath the winter's howl.

Excerpt from "The Raven and The Crow

Angela B. Chrysler

#15. 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

#16. Harlin needs you," she whispers. "He loves you too much."
I smile a little. "I know. But I like that about him.

Suzanne Young

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