Top 37 Profound Poetry Quotes
#1. I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
Valorie Curry
#2. That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
Galway Kinnell
#3. So many of you have lost everything. I don't know what to say to you. But the Lord does know what to say to you. Some of you have lost part of your families. All I can do is keep silence and walk with you all with my silent heart.
Pope Francis
#4. Ain't nothing more important than loving your mama. Even if you can't understand her. Love her. That's all you gotta do.
Julie Cantrell
#5. kisses... are
and always will be
the only language
that I will have
ever truly known.
Sanober Khan
#6. For it is up to you and me
to take solace
in nostalgia's arms
and our ability
to create
the everlasting
from fleeting moments.
Sanober Khan
#7. the ocean mist
engulfs me, like a lifetime's
friendship honored.
Sanober Khan
#8. I have granted you much that you asked: and yet you never cease to ask of me. He who refuses nothing, Atticilla, will soon have nothing to refuse.
Martial
#9. Hands.
Cheeks.
Eyes.
Lips.
Neck.
Ears.
Thighs.
Heart.
Soul.
Ahh!
the things I get to
savor you with.
Sanober Khan
#10. Mystery is never more than a mirage that vanishes as we draw near to look at it.
Simone De Beauvoir
#11. So it became,
the law of universe,
to have the,
profoundest,
of the words,
cloaked in the,
darkest of the masks.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#12. most of the times
it's the hardest
to say
what I love more
you
or
your memory.
Sanober Khan
#13. may my faith always be
at the end of the day
like a hummingbird...returning
to its favorite flower.
Sanober Khan
#14. Catch a moment with your eye,
You cannot let it pass by,
This will always remain when we won't be,
Enjoy this one moment of eternity.
Mira Midha
#15. Great poets are all philosophers too profound to systematize their ideas. Inside every dark visionary is a being of insidious reason waiting patiently for his host to die. From the cleft of the creative arises the categorical flower.
Alex Stein
#16. No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#17. I had embraced you...
long before i hugged you.
Sanober Khan
#18. love
wounds me
with soft pillows
with tender lips
and fingers
Sanober Khan
#19. i have known you
since the beginning
of time
the one
i have loved always
in spirit.
only just discovered
in person.
Sanober Khan
#20. It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.
Edgar Allan Poe
#21. i would rather have
feelings without words
than words without feelings.
Sanober Khan
#22. The words I speak to these chairs
must be silencing.
It has stunned them
into a profound emptiness.
No creaking from the gallery
no James Joyce here, nor Malory
An unknown author
in a very large chain
can't you hear me rattling?
B.J. Ward
#24. Just as I love women, I love gay men. I always say it: inside me there is a gay man who wants to come out.
Victoria Beckham
#25. I try not to handle the foreign subjects with my English techniques and preconceptions, but to paint Sydney in Sydney and Tangier in Tangier.
John Newbery
#27. By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
Lascelles Abercrombie
#28. The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence
William Arthur Ward
#29. I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
George S. McGovern
#30. Do not grieve the gone,
For life is just a loan,
A miracle, a gift for ones who come from within,
To love and carry on.
Mira Midha
#31. A lot of songs are empowering because everybody who has been through a hard time in a relationship or in their lives can relate to it.
Nicole Scherzinger
#32. Eyes speak the best of the body language.
Pushpa Rana
#33. As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
Albert Bushnell Hart
#34. how can i ever
breathe normally again
after having been cradled
by the kind of sorrow
so silent, that it nourishes
after having been swept
by the kind of joy
so absolute, that it wounds.
Sanober Khan
#35. Skilled verse is the work of a profound skeptic.
Paul Valery
#36. He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.
Audrey Niffenegger
#37. to be a poet means
to live
with a permanent wound
forever
susceptible
to either
the shade
of the sky
or someone's eyes.
Sanober Khan
