13,976 Quotes About Poetry

And each in the cell of himself is almost convinced of his freedom.

We are made of all those who have built and broken us.

Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters in their works. I like Michelangelo's vision, 'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.

She conquered her demons and wore her scars like wings. 

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,To raise the genius, and to mend the heart

he saw her lightand he felt, the warmth of herbreak through centuries of longinglost behind clouds, blocked away from her far away glowfeeling her on his skintranscending into his heartpermeating through his soulhere was love trueso close, so closehe saw her light, but he knewyou must find your own light, just like the light finds its own lightto give back, love true

An old liar told me hereTo think ahead and save my money.I should have spent it on ribbons.I should have learned the tune my dead grandfather playedWhen the daft wife heard him resoundingIn the deep pine woods in early November.

... and I realise the only way to tell the others is through the way my voice can take these broken wordsand turn it into music. Turn it into poetry.And I sing to make myself come alive, but also for you,because I’d like this to mean something.To not disappear with the dark I will enter one day and so now I will tell.If not for you, then for my own heart, because it tells me to,and I'm learning to listen.