Poetry Foundation Quotes

#1. All must pay the debt of nature.

Annie Proulx

#2. I know friends should be supportive of each other's life decisions and all that.

Sophie Kinsella

#3. Who could truly set His shield to rest?
His throne? His mighty spear?
Think on that. Remember it well, O princes.
Who could lay waste to Tenochtitlan?
Who dares assail the foundation of heaven?

David Bowles

#4. Letting go
I can have a firm foundation
To honor you
And hold you in my heart

April Nichole

#5. That mortal is a fool who, prospering, thinks his life has any strong foundation; since our fortune's course of action is the reeling way a madman takes, and no one person is ever happy all the time.

Euripides

#6. Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.

Charlie Munger

#7. The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

Jon Favreau

#8. But, through it all, I continue to stand in the firmness of my foundation, and follow the light of the sun to my divine destiny

C.M. Krishack

#9. If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. our foundation is rocky
because we made a home
in each other's skin.
the damage is beginning
to show.

K.Y. Robinson

#11. We live in an abstract world that created the physical universe.

Joey Lawsin

#12. Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#13. Goals that are not written down and developed into plans are like bullets without powder in the cartridge. People with unwritten goals go through life shooting blanks.

Brian Tracy

#14. I certainly hope you aren't perfect. Else I'll have to make shit up to punish you.

Joey W. Hill

#15. JOE2.23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first month.

Anonymous

#16. We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.

Chiang Kai-shek

#17. The piano is kind of like a dance floor for our thoughts you know? A very woody foundation so that we can really focus on the poetry.

Bianca C

#18. Poets are Prisoners
8-29-2015
Poets are prisoners
Practitioners, commissioners &
conditioners of the spoken word
Caged by their own minds
Words are shackles

Debbie Tosun Kilday