13,976 Quotes About Poetry

I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?

Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you fore defeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The square-limbed Roman letters Scale in the thaws, wear in the rain. The poet as well Builds his monument mockingly; For man will be blotted out, the blithe earth die, the brave sun Die blind and blacken to the heart: Yet stones have stood for a thousand years, and pained thoughts found The honey of peace in old poems.

What makes us leave what we love best?What is it inside us that keeps erasing itselfWhen we need it most,That sends us into uncertainty for its own sakeAnd holds us flush there until we begin to love itAnd have to begin again?What is it within our own lives we decline to liveWhenever we find it, making our days unendurable,And nights almost visionless?I still don't know yet, but I do it.

I really believe, or want to believe, really I am nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.

There is only one way to stop being afraid: start being afraid of something else.

I knew you not, but I knew you completely. I was in love with something of a memory, a memory that always was and always would be.

Degraded bird, I give you back your eyes forever, ascend now whither you are tossed;Forsake this wrist, forsake this rhyme;Soar, eat ether, see what has never been seen; depart, be lost,But climb.

Life is but a day;A fragile dew-drop on its perilous wayFrom a tree’s summit.

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.