Quotes about Poetry, page 8

The black serpent, leaving his filthy cave, Has finally suffered by your hand so sure and brave The end of its venomous existence so despised! From the tiger's guts, from his homicidal teeth You came and drew what he'd devoured from...

Quote by Joseph Chénier about poetry

Virtue alone is free. Honor of our history, Our immortal shame we live beside your glory.

Quote by Joseph Chénier about poetry

What feeds me destroys me.

Quote by Christopher Marlowe about poetry

For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Quote by George Seferis about poetry

Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.

Quote by Hugo Claus about poetry

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.

Quote by Hugo Claus about poetry

Written in blood - and Bigotry may swell. The sail he spreads for Heaven with blasts from hell!

Quote by Edward Moore about poetry

Through danger safety comes - through trouble, rest.

Quote by John Marston about poetry

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Quote by Thomas Gray about poetry

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.

Quote by Thomas Gray about poetry

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.

Quote by Leonard Cohen about poetry

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Quote by William Hazlitt about poetry

the poet doesn't have age.

Quote by Petru Cardu about poetry

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, coveting to fly in the sky.

Quote by Carl Sandburg about poetry

Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.

Quote by Vanessa Redgrave about poetry

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

Quote by Sylvia Plath about poetry

The shadows now so long do grow, That brambles like tall cedars show, Molehills seem mountains, and the ant Appears a monstrous elephant.

Quote by Charles Cotton about poetry

I Should Say Snow the green turned to black the black to white I should say snow but the word is like blood: doesn't show unless there is a wound a wound in the middle of the silence I should say in the middle of the heart but the...

Quote by Stela Vinitchi Radulescu about poetry

October The Earth is dreaming people and moans snow dogs are barking in our hearts as if the moon... Go your way blue sorrow blue pain these hours are hunchbacked by so many prayers the Earth is dreaming golden big fruits one...

Quote by Stela Vinitchi Radulescu about poetry

Star Star, my only star, in the poverty of the night, alone, for me, alone, you shine, in loneliness you shine; But, for me, star that never will stop from lighting, a too short time is granted you, you lavish me a light that...

Quote by Giuseppe Ungaretti about poetry