13,976 Quotes About Poetry

I ache not from need -but from my heart's gluttony of you.

With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.

the worst thing," he told me,"is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out.

People (even Americans) often find it difficult to talk about themselves.  Poetry gives them a kind of verbal costume in which they can express themselves with more dignity and confidence than the common dress of everyday speech will allow.

There's a great feeling of relief and catharsis when you manage to get something that's been buried or hidden out onto the page. And such a process, whether or not it eventually results in a poem, helps to integrate that part of the self.

I want to have a romance so grand,it would have made Shakespeare fumble for words.

I've triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me.

Color is the overpowering of black; white – the final victory over black.