Top 100 Poetry Life Quotes

#1. Rare indeed is the seed who can bury its nightmares & still stem & blossom into its wildest dreams.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

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#2. If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.

Socrates

Poetry Life Quotes #119994
#3. At the end of the day
all we ever need is
something
that helped
pass the time
and something
that keeps time from passing.

Sanober Khan

Poetry Life Quotes #119440
#4. I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.

Zona Gale

Poetry Life Quotes #114728
#5. I build boxes
and place them at your feet,
to measure the distance
between dreams and reality.

Jessica Kristie

Poetry Life Quotes #111833
#6. I find it incredibly amazing how at every sunset, the sky is a different shade. No cloud is ever in the same place. Each day is a new masterpiece. A new wonder. A new memory.

Sanober Khan

Poetry Life Quotes #111448
#7. Dream is nothing but lust
Gain is nothing but dust
Strong is standing to fall
Iron is waiting to rust

Nadeem Fraz

Poetry Life Quotes #111134
#8. Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.

Jim Carroll

Poetry Life Quotes #107324
#9. A person who wants a pure and simple life can start a war within themselves and with society

Lisa C. Miller

Poetry Life Quotes #107017
#10. Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.

Santosh Kalwar

Poetry Life Quotes #105640
#11. True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Poetry Life Quotes #103476
#12. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?

Henry David Thoreau

Poetry Life Quotes #101988
#13. [Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling let's buy it what a bargain!

Anne Carson

Poetry Life Quotes #100079
#14. They cannot understand that the figure of a laborer - some furrows in a plowed field, a bit of sand, sea and sky - are serious objects, so difficult but at the same time so beautiful, that it is indeed worth while to devote one's life to the task of expressing the poetry hidden in them.

Brenda Ueland

Poetry Life Quotes #120104
#15. Poetry is the beauty of life.

Debasish Mridha

Poetry Life Quotes #99844
#16. Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

Terence McKenna

Poetry Life Quotes #98887
#17. A hallowed frequency within
That, even in your darkest hour,
You can always turn to.

Scott Hastie

Poetry Life Quotes #97358
#18. If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
Then my life
Will be yours

James Jones

Poetry Life Quotes #94987
#19. He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.

Subramanya Bharathi

Poetry Life Quotes #94275
#20. I've never seen beauty
so devastating
as in the lines
that trace our hope
and fall from the stars.

Jessica Kristie

Poetry Life Quotes #91628
#21. You are afraid to let anyone in, but you still leave the door open, hoping someone good will shut the door behind him and throw away the keys.

Jenim Dibie

Poetry Life Quotes #90287
#22. May the energy of the day always call for celebration. Barbara Botch

Barbara Botch

Poetry Life Quotes #89285
#23. Parting
One is strong, a child now grown
The other weak, a parent aged
-
The strong once feeble
The weak once mighty
-
Time, the infinity
has marked them ...

Muse

Poetry Life Quotes #84107
#24. You can't build a life
on another human being. We're foundations
of sand. We're Atlas buckling under the sky.

Elisabeth Hewer

Poetry Life Quotes #83816
#25. Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.
So be passionate and write a great story.

Debasish Mridha

Poetry Life Quotes #83289
#26. Free from ivory-tower
the pencil twirls
across the footpath

Santosh Kalwar

Poetry Life Quotes #151967
#27. Life is never beautiful, but only the pictures of life are so in the transfiguring mirror of art or poetry; especially in youth, when we do not yet know it. Many a youth would receive great peace of mind if one could assist him to this knowledge.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Poetry Life Quotes #171119
#28. I believe in reverencing anything in the life of man which has the testimony of the ages as being unexcelled, whether it be literature, paintings, poetry, tombs -- even a golf hole.

C.B. MacDonald

Poetry Life Quotes #170658
#29. I ain't scared to lend a hand
I ain't scared to clench it either

Mie Hansson

Poetry Life Quotes #168651
#30. It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

Billy Collins

Poetry Life Quotes #164202
#31. Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

Natasha Trethewey

Poetry Life Quotes #163427
#32. Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

Dante Alighieri

Poetry Life Quotes #161137
#33. Life eats life to live.

Dejan Stojanovic

Poetry Life Quotes #158607
#34. I hate forcing myself to go to bed to avoid committing suicide.

Phil Volatile

Poetry Life Quotes #155997
#35. It was her laughter that made me love her. Her shy inappropriate madness is what made her beautiful.

Jay Long

Poetry Life Quotes #155338
#36. Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.

John Dryden

Poetry Life Quotes #154464
#37. Sometimes life requires more of you than you have to give & demands you plunge into the reinvention of yourself if you truly wanna live.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Poetry Life Quotes #153457
#38. If the colour of life turns grey turn the palette the other way

Benny Bellamacina

Poetry Life Quotes #153220
#39. Anger is easier than forgiveness.

Ellen Hopkins

Poetry Life Quotes #83067
#40. Emotion is the poetry of life.

Marty Rubin

Poetry Life Quotes #151221
#41. Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,
but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,
regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.

Tyrtaeus

Poetry Life Quotes #147042
#42. I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.

Erica Jong

Poetry Life Quotes #140692
#43. The words 'I Love You' kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

Aberjhani

Poetry Life Quotes #138472
#44. The important thing in life is to be.

Doutor Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

Poetry Life Quotes #135470
#45. It may be that poetry makes life's nebulous events tangible to me and restores their detail; or conversely, that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of incidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial. Or each on specific occasions, or both all the time.

Frank O'Hara

Poetry Life Quotes #135346
#46. What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry Life Quotes #133855
#47. A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is ... like a life without pictures.

Stephen King

Poetry Life Quotes #130984
#48. Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.

Antonin Artaud

Poetry Life Quotes #127403
#49. I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.

Ted Hughes

Poetry Life Quotes #126712
#50. People don't gotta like the same stuff. If they did, life would be pretty boring.

Erin Bowman

Poetry Life Quotes #121757
#51. You're my story,
you're my poetry,
you're my flower
you're my deep driving desire.

Debasish Mridha

Poetry Life Quotes #14914
#52. some winters
will never melt

some summers
will never freeze

and some things will only
... live in poems.

Sanober Khan

Poetry Life Quotes #35593
#53. Poetry is a pure meritocracy. There's no room for ambiguity: either a poem moves you and opens up new vistas in life, or it doesn't. It's completely objective, and the best always rise to the top.

Jim Goetz

Poetry Life Quotes #32890
#54. When I think of Robert Frost's poems, like "The Road Not Taken", I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on".

Fred Rogers

Poetry Life Quotes #32224
#55. Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better.

David McCullough

Poetry Life Quotes #31752
#56. Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.

Charles Dickens

Poetry Life Quotes #26007
#57. You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

Madeleine L'Engle

Poetry Life Quotes #25112
#58. Nothing is lifeless
when the moon writes its screed
on the silvern sand silence
-From the poem:The Universe In Blossom

Munia Khan

Poetry Life Quotes #22395
#59. Life, it turns out, isn't poetry! And do you know why? Because it's so resistant to criticism!

Andrzej Sapkowski

Poetry Life Quotes #21382
#60. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.

F.K. Preston

Poetry Life Quotes #18914
#61. I am trying to both be happy and pay attention to the world around me. I do not know if it is possible to do both at the same time.

Blythe Baird

Poetry Life Quotes #18583
#62. Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.

Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry Life Quotes #16588
#63. Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

William Faulkner

Poetry Life Quotes #15291
#64. There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen

Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Poetry Life Quotes #38431
#65. There is no poetry or song.
There is no short or long.
There is only you.

Debasish Mridha

Poetry Life Quotes #14181
#66. Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.

Phar West Nagle

Poetry Life Quotes #13733
#67. Steep fall to the ground
shattering
like clay pigeons
missed
by bad shots
and unsteady hands.

Jessica Kristie

Poetry Life Quotes #9683
#68. Poetry is more than just art, it's like super glue to a broken heart. It can also be a light when your life seems a little dark.

Delano Johnson

Poetry Life Quotes #9472
#69. Forced relations between two things that superficially appear foreign create a new, instantaneous state. Authentic poetry asks nothing more. A kinship completely nonexistent moments ago was created by the poet's authority, just as it might have been created in life by the authority of chance.

Odysseus Elytis

Poetry Life Quotes #8527
#70. this life
has been
a landscape
of pain

and still,
flowers
bloom in it.

Sanober Khan

Poetry Life Quotes #7917
#71. There are two kinds of love. One kind you live with, the other you write poetry about.

Debasish Mridha

Poetry Life Quotes #7309
#72. Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.

Alexis De Tocqueville

Poetry Life Quotes #5838
#73. Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.

Mark Strand

Poetry Life Quotes #5658
#74. Reading a stranger's words and finding yourself in them.

Jenim Dibie

Poetry Life Quotes #5163
#75. As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

Benjamin Disraeli

Poetry Life Quotes #322
#76. Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry Life Quotes #64282
#77. even in death, his last breath was poetry
existing in the wind
and on the breeze of
"it used to be likes"
forever remembering,
yet never reliving
his life
will never be what it used to be like.

N'Zuri Za Austin

Poetry Life Quotes #80702
#78. Sometimes having little or no money makes you want to steal and live your life the only way you want to

Martellis Thurmand

Poetry Life Quotes #78350
#79. It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.

John Taylor Gatto

Poetry Life Quotes #77897
#80. the hope is small
but it is everything.

AVA.

Poetry Life Quotes #72291
#81. Loneliness of heart
In the still of the night my heart doth cry out, who can hear it for time is far spent. In the darkness in the shadow of the depth I find isolation and fear ...

M.I. Ghostwriter

Poetry Life Quotes #72283
#82. Fuck I hate fucks
Who think they're so fucking great
They know everything about fucking,
When they're just fucking fucks fucking!
And no one changes the fucking world
When they keep fucking to another fuck's fuck.

Initially NO

Poetry Life Quotes #71859
#83. Everything is an echo of something I once read.

Dream, hope, and celebrate life!

Love always comes back in a song.

One thing we all have in common is a love for food and drink.

Memories never die, and dreams never end!

What is time?

John Siwicki

Poetry Life Quotes #71563
#84. Like a speeding train
I am passing by...
I don't know
where I'm heading
with whom or why
all I know is that
I will never, ever
pass from here again
all I know is I'm skidding forward
on this track of life.

Sanober Khan

Poetry Life Quotes #70226
#85. How light the raindrop's contents are;
how gently the world touches me.

From View With a Grain of Sand

Wislawa Szymborska

Poetry Life Quotes #66516
#86. Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental brightness, orange and crimson, of a living being, a rose and an apple, in the physical and ideal fusion of a true and daily paradise.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Poetry Life Quotes #66374
#87. The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.

Franz Grillparzer

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#88. Everything is connected. We see the signs every moment. There are miracles waiting to happen!

Avijeet Das

Poetry Life Quotes #64856
#89. Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.

Alex Ebert

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#90. And so I've written everything down, too afraid of my demons and what they may say, the doubt that eats at me from the inside. Too afraid that I'll forget and it'll all be a madwoman's dream.

Nadege Richards

Poetry Life Quotes #60097
#91. This is my life and lovestory listen losely and hold on tight this a roller coaster hell of a ride

Patrick Cruz

Poetry Life Quotes #59943
#92. She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

David Nicholls

Poetry Life Quotes #57933
#93. Sometimes you know that you are destined to die, but somehow you are given a parenthesis after the punctuation mark: more years, more time that wasn't meant for you but still was meant for you, a bridge stretching out into the stars, a confidence built of invisible threads, a miracle.

Lene Fogelberg

Poetry Life Quotes #55857
#94. The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.

Virginia Woolf

Poetry Life Quotes #52306
#95. I balance you
on the end of my pen.
Teetering between love
and letting go.

Jessica Kristie

Poetry Life Quotes #52230
#96. Songs. Books. Poetry. Paintings. These things reveal truth. I believe lies and truth are tangled together.

Brenda Sutton Rose

Poetry Life Quotes #48179
#97. Reality is not made of dreams, until you make them real.

Soar

Poetry Life Quotes #47602
#98. No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen? Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer?

Henry David Thoreau

Poetry Life Quotes #46934
#99. I'll be writing as long as I can hold a pen in my curled, crimped arthritic hands and then I'll dictate it, if it comes to that. They'll have to pry my pen out of my cold, dead fingers - and even then, I'll fight 'em for it. Guaranteed.

Wanda Lea Brayton

Poetry Life Quotes #45977
#100. In The End The Words Are The All And The Nothing.

R.M. Engelhardt

Poetry Life Quotes #44109

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