Poetry Quotations Quotes

#1. If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience ... would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?

Aberjhani

#2. Sinful habits are usually indicative of unresolved conflicts.

Erwin W. Lutzer

#3. When you're not confident as a young woman in saying "no" or even saying "yes" necessarily, you don't know which one you're more afraid of in some way. That happens a lot.

Ry Russo-Young

#4. As Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) pointed out, twilight 'is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.' Then again, maybe poetry's chief use is to inspire us to watch the sun go down.

Jessica Kerwin Jenkins

#5. 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

#6. Thing about being free is, comes a point where you can't turn back, even if you wanted to....Even if you wanted to, they wouldn't take you. You've gone to far.

Nicholas Hochstedler

#7. I remember the first time I saw you. Your hair was in two braids instead of one. I remember when you sang in the music assembly and the teacher said "who knows the valley song?" and your hand shot straight up. After that, I watched you going home everyday. Everyday

Suzanne Collins

#8. We don't use phones anymore in this day and age, yet she still phones things in.

Julie Klausner

#9. My name is Truth and I am the most elusive captive
in the universe.

Carl Sandburg

#10. A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose.
A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss.

Sal Martinez

#11. That's the problem - our lives have stopped and the world keeps going round.

Delphine De Vigan

#12. I love with love, so that we all may love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

Amunhotep El Bey

#13. If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don't see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

Vivienne Westwood

#14. When I was around 19 years old, working in the college library, I was talking to a friend of mine and this older woman interrupted and said "You're too young to know about Billie Holiday." My response was "I'm too young to know about Shakespeare, too ... should I not read him?

Wanda Lea Brayton

#15. Not knowing what he sees, he adores the sight; That false face fools and fuels his delight

Ovid

#16. Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them.

Morgan Dragonwillow

#17. Life breathes on its own without nostrils

Sandra Proto

#18. Old words are reborn with new faces.

Criss Jami

#19. It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.

Graham Greene

#20. This whole controversy about global warming or even evolution - politicians just don't want to take the time to educate themselves.

Rush D. Holt Jr.

#21. And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.

Robert J. Morrissette

#22. The day will only be as good as the thoughts you have.

Alison Giles

#23. Smile is your make up,angelic face
You light up the entire place

Patrick Cruz

#24. And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life.

Nicole Lyons

#25. I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn't want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn't want to show up on the Internet, 'Tom Brokaw has cancer.'

Tom Brokaw

#26. Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

Nicolas Chamfort

#27. there are no angels
brighter than dawn

Eugene Warren

#28. If lighthouse becomes a burning candle,
flickered upon ocean's insanity.
Your sailing heart there anchors to handle
the obsessed breeze towards sand dune's vanity.

Munia Khan

#29. They only want to weep
As after the huge wars
Senseless huge wars
Huge senseless weeping.

Ted Hughes

#30. There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody.
Or die trying

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#31. Selecting the paper for your letterhead has more variables than you might think. Normal writing or computer printing paper is too light and poor quality to be used for letterhead. Using too heavy of a paper comes off as being ridged and over spending on a basic supply.

Mitch Stephen

#32. Love is as we will it to be." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

Amunhotep El Bey

#33. the crows are like a harrow to
unbroken ground they turn it loose
they give it air

Maurice Manning

#34. In London, 'Equus' caused a sensation because it displayed cruelty to horses; in New York, because it allegedly displayed cruelty to psychiatrists.

Peter Shaffer

#35. I took her to bed with silk and song
'Lay still, my love, I won't be long,
I must prepare my body for passion.'
'O, your body you give, but all else you ration ...

Roman Payne

#36. Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

Paul Samuelson

#37. I found an empty chair
and sat on it
to find myself even emptier.
I found a broken glass
and looked at it
to see my dissolved face
a little prettier
I found a steep doorway
and entered
in order to close my exit.
From the poem 'Blue Stanzas

Munia Khan