Polish Poetry Quotes

#1. Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

Wislawa Szymborska

#2. A good life with contentment is itself a great wealth. For we brought nothing with us into this world, and we can take nothing out of it. So if we have enough of what we need, let us be content with that.

Saint Timothy

#3. Please, sit in my sky and let me polish your shine.

Shane Koyczan

#4. No, you're not, Marissa says. You were just the victim of the blatant misogynistic and ridiculous hierarchy that is high school in contemporary society. You have to take the power back.

Lauren Barnholdt

#5. Thighs made of hymns, I read 'em like I'm reading runes. Now tell me where my future lies ... your neck, can I Savion on it?

Brandi L. Bates

#6. Chemistry is important. If you like your teammates, it's going to be easier to play with them on the court.

Kevin Durant

#7. Her mother had called, and being a good daughter was as convenient an excuse as any. Anything to avoid the library.

Joseph Fink

#8. How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.

Isaac Watts

#9. At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

Walt Whitman

#10. The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

Nicholas Meyer

#11. A deep-cover squad tried to infiltrate the far left by posing as politically radicalized Vietnam veterans well supplied with guns and drugs. Four or five of them liked their new lives so much that they never came back.

Tim Weiner

#12. I have nothing to say
and I am saying it
and that is poetry
as I need it.

John Cage

#13. There was a man
Who made a boat
To sail away
And it sank.

J.P. Donleavey

#14. 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

#15. We are all farmers tending a little part of the Lord's vineyard.

Sheri L. Dew

#16. Later that night she picked the polish off
with her front teeth until the bed you shared
for seven years seemed speckled with glitter
and blood.

Warsan Shire

#17. Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion.

Karen Armstrong