Poetry Quotes

If I could take your troubles I would toss them into the sea, But all these things I'm finding Are impossible for me. I cannot build a mountain Or catch a rainbow fair, But let me be what I know best, A friend that is always there.

First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.

Before you came the world was prose. Now poetry is born.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

All poets, all writers are political. They either maintain the status quo, or they say, 'Something's wrong, let's change it for the better.'

The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

The reason we go to poetry is not for wisdom, but for the dismantling of wisdom

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say ... something that everyone knows already in words that nobody can understand. Commenting to him about the poetry J. Robert Oppenheimer wrote.

Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone.

Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.

I am looking for a poem that says Everything so I don't have to write anymore.