(198 quotes found)
“Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh, my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune”
Robert Burns
“I believe that each human being has within himself or herself at least one poem or short story, or perhaps even a full length book.”
Dee Brown
“Being naked feels great, it's like you are this fine piece of painting, where all eyes and minds feed from, then suddenly you don't feel naked anymore.”
Rose B Mashigo
“He has written some of the most memorable poems of our time, and his achievement rivals that of great American poets like Robert Frost and Elizabeth Bishop.”
Christian Wiman
“A memorable quote requires a shake of semantic shenanigans and a pinch of poetic pulchritude.”
Rain Bojangles
“Good Poems for Hard Times”
Garrison Keillor
“For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.”
William Blake
