191 quotes found
“fortune has no era finer than this moment”
“It is right it should be so;Man was made for joy and woe;And when this we rightly know,Thro' the world we safely go.Joy and woe are woven fine,A clothing for the soul divine.Under every grief and p...”
“The emmet's inch and eagle's mileMake lame philosophy to smile.He who doubts from what he seesWill ne'er believe, do what you please.- "Auguries of Innocence”
“Oh, the summer night / HAS A SMILE OF LIGHT / And she sits on a sapphire throne.”
“People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint in somebody else's head, in the dark snow of their mind.”
“Unlike the bough that shook off her dead leaves violentlylike a wet terrier,unlike the beating of the butterfly, her wings, against the cocoon, some dreams never made a move.”
“. . . distant as the death of grocery chickens.”
“Blessed is the covenant of love, the covenant of mercy, useless light behind the terror, deathless song in the house of night.”
“Blessed are you who circled desire with a blade, and the garden with fiery swords, and heaven and earth with a word.”
“Poetry should be like 'Uh-huh. Baby has to have it.”
“O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.”
“Should I get lost, just point me in the direction of a poem.”
“Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness.”
“The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.”
“If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing I normally write poetry.”
“I'd rather write poetry than watch TV it allows me to share the wide screen in me.”
“Some poems are written great, some poems are written swell. But then there are poems that could win a prize in Hell.”
“the light too brief to finish any work the woman seeks to amplify the dark”
“I have a book of poetry I believe many should read but in each verse you'll discover it wasn't written for greed.”
“I am a hoarder of words, a giver of them, too”
