13,976 Quotes About Poetry

Songwriting and poetry are so commonly birthed from underdogs because one can make even the ugliest situations admirable, or more beautiful than the beautiful situations - they are the most graceful media in which the lines of society are distorted.

I want so little: another leather boundBook, a gimlet with a lavender gin, breadSo good when I taste it I can tell youHow it’s made. I’d like us to rethinkWhat it is to be a nation. I’m in a mood about AmericaToday.

I give you this to take with you:Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you canbegin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

I never understand other peoples' desires or hopes,until they coincide with my own, then we clash.

Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.

But my only wish Is a simple one: to Dance with wild horses.

Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.