Poetry We Call Life Quotes

#1. First of all, I find everything funny, which is upsetting to my children sometimes, and to people in my life, in general.

Jenji Kohan

#2. May the energy of the day always call for celebration. Barbara Botch

Barbara Botch

#3. Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government.

George Will

#4. Manna today or I starve.

Ann Voskamp

#5. Mother Earth, one of my absolute favorite places ... where the sounds, the energy, the beauty and the Life pounds into your every fiber of being, letting you Know that you are alive. I will always respect and honor this gift of creation that we call our home.

Peace Gypsy

#6. We're all just wandering souls searching for a heart to call home...

I. Wimana C.

#7. Self-love isn't always so poetic; sometimes it's a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You've got to call yourself on your own nonsense; on the incredibly efficient way you can be self-destructive.

Steve Maraboli

#8. I love contemporary poetry because it moves between what we call poetry and what we call philosophy. It joins these fields and makes writing more natural, as in how it is lived in the person. We don't separate thinking from feeling in real life, so why should we separate it in writing?

Etel Adnan

#9. The ref blew the whistle and the pack took off. The "jostling" from earlier had turned into a "melee" Sun Tzu would have been afraid of.

Shelly Laurenston

#10. Stop." He shuddered, his eyes dark. "I can still feel you on my tongue. It's taking everything in me not to slide to my knees and see where else I can lick you. Damn near everywhere, in this dress. It's nothing but leather straps and sass.

Kit Rocha

#11. To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#12. I pissed on my diploma, smell the aroma.

Kid Rock

#13. Late Fragment
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

Raymond Carver

#14. On Paper
*
some call it poetry
but it is just pain
on paper
_
rassool jibraeel snyman (c) 2015
The Poetic Assassin

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#15. She walks,
on the streets,
with a face that,
doesn't belong.
It smiles more than,
many put together,
whole day long.
Her heart misfit,
a little chipped.
And she likes to,
call it once broken,
but now stitched.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#16. I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.

William Shakespeare

#17. Fighting the Taliban and the various radical organizations on the front lines is like adding a Band-Aid to a cut, it may stop the bleeding but unless you clean it with antiseptic, the germs stay and multiply.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#18. Death is the end of the poetry we call life.

Debasish Mridha

#19. They always say, we'll just do another year. It's called the golden handcuffs.

Hilary Mantel

#20. I go to the House of Lords in the afternoon and try to walk halfway. I may be thinking about what I'm going to write. It's much more satisfying than sitting in a chair.

Ruth Rendell

#21. Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees.

Ged Thompson

#22. If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#23. My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.

Robert Schumann

#24. People tell you to believe in yourself for your whole life, then call you arrogant when you begin taking their advice.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#25. Is it a mausoleum, and I, the Egyptiab, mummified with pillows and my own flesh, through some oversight enbalmed alive? There must be some mistake.

Margaret Laurence

#26. I don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it?

Nayvadius Cash

#27. What we call life is only talk of nature.

Dejan Stojanovic

#28. I was not use to that kind of hunger, even as a poor college student.

Julie Wenzel

#29. It starts off like climbing a tree or solving a puzzle - poetry, if nothing else, is just fun to write. But deeper into each and every piece, you no longer hesitate to call it work. It's passion. A poet's sense of lyrical accomplishment is then his food and water, his means of survival.

Criss Jami