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  • If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

    Taken   Writing   Poetry  
    Quoted in Martha Bianchi, Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson (1924)
  • One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

    Love   Men   Bending Down  
    'When You Are Old'
  • How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

    1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.
  • All that is gold does not glitter.

    J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

    Beauty   Taken   Simple  
    Interview with Stephen Colbert at Montclair Kimberley Academy, January 29, 2010.
  • Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

    Lyrical Ballads 2nd ed., preface (1802) See Dorothy Parker 24
  • Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

    Poetry   Emotion   Found  
  • But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

    "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)
  • But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.

    "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.
  • And this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart I carry your heart [ i carry it in my heart ]

    Stars   Heart   Wonder  
    E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck
  • Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

    Fire   Ice   Poetry  
    "Fire and Ice" l. 1 (1923)
  • I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

    1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.
  • here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)

    E. E. Cummings (2013). “Like a perhaps hand: Poems. Gedichte”, p.45, C.H.Beck
  • I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book.

    Book   Son   Poetry  
  • The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

    Funny   Food   Sarcasm  
    "Alarms And Discursions". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1910.
  • Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

    Writing   Animal   Air  
    Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.317, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do.

    Believe   People   Given  
  • To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

    "Ulysses" l. 65 (1842)
  • ...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face... "When You Are Old And Gray

    Love   Men   Bending Down  
    The Countess Kathleen (1892) "When You Are Old"
  • Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

    Letter to John Taylor, 27 February 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 238
  • The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep...

    Tattoo   Running   Taken  
    "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)
  • Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

    Hate   Thinking   Fire  
    "Fire and Ice" l. 5 (1923)
  • This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.

    Death   Poetry   Religion  
    "The Hollow Men" l. 95 (1925)
  • How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

    Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)
  • The truest and greatest Poetry, (while subtly and necessarily always rhythmic, and distinguishable easily enough) can never again, in the English language, be express'd in arbitrary and rhyming metre, any more than the greatest eloquence, or the truest power and passion.

    Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.323, Courier Corporation
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