Prayer Poetry Quotes

#1. Love leads us to write poetry because love improves our hearing; like prayer, poetry is every bit as much about listening as it is about speaking. To 'get' the poem is to hear the eloquence of the silence that it calls forth through its manifestation of love.

David Patterson

#2. I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.

Derek Walcott

#3. Offerings gleam beneath consecrated trees,
boulders, and caves where Kami nature spirits
minister to congregations of saki cans, lotus root,
and the glow of tangerines; still-lives silent as prayer.

Jalina Mhyana

#4. A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

Madeleine L'Engle

#5. I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,
Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!

E.A. Bucchianeri

#6. Solace of Silence
surreal synapses
of a melancholy drone
a dream per chance
she dared not be alone ...

Muse

#7. All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

Samuel Beckett

#8. Conservatism makes no poetry, breathes no prayer, has no invention; it is all memory. Reform has no gratitude, no prudence, no husbandry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are terrible at teaching people how to pray. It may be that we need to learn from the ground up as religious people, whether Christian or not, how to pray.

Kevin Hart

#10. The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

Alice McDermott

#11. Prayer is a many fingered
and kaleidoscopic thing - it folds
and unfolds inside of you. It enters
the many rooms you cannot enter.

Cecilia Llompart

#12. O we are wearied of this sense of guilt,
Wearied of pleasure's paramour despair,
Wearied of every temple we have built,
Wearied of every unanswered right, unanswered prayer,
For man is weak; God sleeps: and heaven is high:
One fiery-colored moment: one great love: and lo! we die.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Poetry and prayer are very similar.

Carol Ann Duffy

#14. Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.

Colson Whitehead

#15. Immersed in surrender and gratitude, celestial pearls of wisdom form rosaries of prayer that entangle with my soul.

Earthschool Harmony

#16. It is, I believe, the primary charm of poetry to give the lesson of mirage, that is, to show the fragile and vibrant movement of creation, in which the word is in a certain way human quintessence, prayer.

Jean-Marie G. Le Clezio

#17. Prayer is that which conveys a message to God, who is either known or knowing, more or less by definition. Poetry is that which conveys a message to a stranger.

G.C. Waldrep III

#18. Rooftop Poetry
Sing poetry from rooftops
like a muzzein' s call for prayer.

Beryl Dov

#19. Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

Rajneesh

#20. She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.

Carol Ann Duffy

#21. The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.

Mary Quant

#22. Make me, dear Lord, polite and kind,
To everyone, I pray.
And may I ask you how you find
Yourself, dear Lord, today?

John B. Tabb

#23. Poetry to me is prayer ...

Anne Sexton

#24. Scatter as a prayer
escaping my lips...

as orchids
blooming in clouds.

Sanober Khan

#25. Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

Lorna Goodison

#26. Hello my Country I once came to tell everyone your story Your passion was my poetry And your past my most potent glory Your promise was my prayer Your hypocrisy my nightmare And your problems fill my present Are we both going somewhere?

Harry Chapin

#27. Why should I pray? Why should I venerate and be ceremonious?

Walt Whitman

#28. I am filled time and again
with a heart-aching wonder
when I think

of the fire
and frost of memories

of the everlastingness
of love

the solace
of family
and the power
of prayer.

Sanober Khan

#29. You only have to do one good thing to be in somebody's lifetime of prayers.

Sanober Khan

#30. Quiet Prayer:
As long as the sun shall rise goes the old lovers vow. But we are children of a scientific age & have no time for poetry. Still, I offer a quiet prayer of thanks for the sunlight each time I see your face.

Brian Andreas

#31. Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

James Martineau

#32. On faith's battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation's hot rage.

Aberjhani

#33. I sat in a box
With walls on each side.
Not too tall.
Not too wide.
To think.
To ponder.
To pray.
To hide.
I sat in a box and cried.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#34. She entered a state where prayer and poetry became one and the everyday world seemed full of holiness and significance.

Lian Hearn

#35. Our parents prayer is the most beautiful poetry and expectations

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