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1996 quotes about poetry
Discover inspiring poetry quotes from famous authors and thought leaders. Find wisdom and motivation about poetry to inspire your life.
poetry Quotes
"Nothing Stay Forever""Nature’s first green is gold,"Her hardest hue to hold."Her early leaf’s a flower;"But only so an hour."Then leaf subsides to leaf."So Eden sank to grief,"So dawn goes down today."Nothing gold can stay.-- Robert Frost"
"Pirate Captain Jim"Walk the plank,"says Pirate Jim"But Captain Jim, I cannot swim.""Then you must steer us through the gale.""But Captain Jim, I cannot sail.""Then down with the galley slaves you go.""But Captain Jim, I cannot row.""Then you must be the pirate's clerk.""But Captain Jim, I cannot work."
"Knocked-Up Kinda' Loven Marry, me, marry me, marry me,You better say, 'affirmative',Cuz you stuck a bun in my ovenand you haven't an alternative."
"As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant."
"As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves."
"Endless Childhood [10w] + {Couplet} Put off summer's endAnd adulthood's vexingburdens shall suspend."
"Iran [10w] In Teheran daylight dawnswith minarets against skies of bronze."
"sometimes i don't know, which momentwhich cool gust of wind will come,and enchant metousling my hairand my heart, stirring...that familiar ache of poetry, which drop will kissthe old wrench in my soulreminding me, all over againi miss you better in the rain."
"Take away love and our earth is a tomb."
"Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless."
"I drift like a cloud,Across these venerable eastern lands,A journey of unfathomable distances,An endless scroll of experiences...Lady Zhejiang here we must part,For the next province awaits my embrace.Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East,Where do you go?"
"The first time I saw her,Everything in my head went quiet."
"I fell in love with you in a hurry, like you were going somewhere fast - which you did. You came and went like an earthquake, like some sort of eclipse. I've spent hours, days, months, years missing you. But then something strange happened, and now I can't remember why I ever loved you at all. You didn't deserve it. I should have loved me more."
"So runs my dream, but what am I?An infant crying in the nightAn infant crying for the lightAnd with no language but a cry."
"Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below."
"Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall"
"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness."
"Missed Childhood [10w] + {Couplet} Adolescence spent upon a cross,regrettably is childhood's loss."
"California [10w] No two snowflakes are alike,unless they're California yoga practitioners."