13,976 Quotes About Poetry

Poetry isn’t an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn’t a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn’t swimming. Poetry is water.

I’m not asking for much. A more tender worldwith less hatred strutting the streets.Perhaps a downtick in state-sanctioned violenceagainst civilians. Wind through the trees.Water under the bridge. Kindness.

She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.

Fear of joy is the darkest of captivities.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime.And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

I haven’t been very impressed lately.By people,or places,or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.

So for now,I will miss you like I’ll never see you again,And the next time I see you,I will kiss you like I’ll never kiss you again,And when I fall asleep beside you I will fall asleep as if I’ll never wake up again,because I don’t know if I will.I don’t know if I will.- I Will Love You Like The World Is Ending

We would rather be ruined than changedWe would rather die in our dreadThan climb the cross of the momentAnd let our illusions die.