Surreal Poetry Quotes

#1. Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Mark Twain

#2. I love you, you know. Viviane let the words hang in the air between them for a moment, like a sweet pink cloud. Then she inhaled the words in whole, turned them over in her mouth, relished their solidity on her tongue.

Leslye Walton

#3. But there was nothing in the world that could turn me away from him. He could have murdered babies and laughed gleefully while he did it, and I would still have killed myself trying to impress him.

B.R. Sanders

#4. I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.

Daniel Barber

#5. [On Jason Mashak's "I Was Trained to See Shadows", in his poetry book SALTY AS A LIP:] A nice bit of smooth, full-bodied, surreal story telling. I like it.

John Bennett

#6. you sat breeding
multiple & varied as a ghost

Will Alexander

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

Muse

#8. Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life.

Comte De Lautreamont

#9. As anthropomorphic and surreal people have said my early writing was, to me it was really stock and almost banal in the sense that it was just description, the poetry of comparing: "Your feet are like A, and your eyes like B."

Devendra Banhart

#10. Linear's defeated form
The intangible reality rise.' ~ Wanderer

Stella Coulson

#11. Othello is about many different kinds of love: it's about the light, beautiful side of love, and it's about the twisted, darker side of love, and it's about how, if you flip the emotional coin, love can make you do terrible things. (James Earl Jones)

Susannah Carson

#12. Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that.

Mitt Romney

#13. That was their Prince for you, a twisty, vicious fiend who you should never, ever cross, unless you wanted your gullet handed to you on a platter

C.S. Pacat

#14. I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.

Edward Norton

#15. As long as one human being is hungry, the entire human race is hungry.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#16. Progress is built, in effect, upon the foundations of necessary failure. That is the essential paradox of expert performance.

Matthew Syed

#17. I love to feel the temperature drop and the wind increase just before a thunderstorm. Then I climb in bed with the thunder.

Amanda Mosher

#18. My child has to be an artist,
because conceiving her will be the best art
my body has ever accommodated.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni