Quotes About Poetry

No. It's Dandilion this time, your fellow. That idler, parasite and good-for-nothing, that priest of art, the bright-shining star of the ballad and love poem. As usual he's radiant with fame, puffed up like a pig's bladder and stinking of beer. Do you want to see him?" "Of course. He's my friend, after all.

Veinte años al servicio de la poesía, suficiente tiempo como para saber que hay cosas que o se entienden al vuelo, incluso sin palabras, o nunca se las entenderá.

Songs and ballads"—the musician bowed—"never end, dear lady, because poetry is eternal and immortal, it knows no beginning, it knows no end—

We poets have to know about everything," said Dandelion haughtily. "Otherwise we'd compromise our work. One has to learn, my dear fellow, learn.

La vita non ha niente a che vedere con la poesia! E sai perché? Perché è al di sopra di qualsiasi critica!

Geralt ha capito al volo, Cahir crede di aver capito, io chiedo in maniera esplicita un chiarimento, ma prima mi si ordina di tacere, poi mi sento dire che non c'è bisogno che capisca. Grazie. Vent'anni al servizio della poesia sono un periodo abbastanza lungo per sapere che ci sono cose che o si capiscono al volo, anche senza parole, o non si capiranno mai.

Life, it turns out, isn't poetry. Do you know why? Because it's so resistant to criticism.

C'est bien en cela que réside le rôle de la poésie, Ciri. Parler des choses que les autres taisent.

Elaine blath, Feainnewedd. That meant: Beautiful flower, child of the Sun.

A Ranuncolo venne di nuovo voglia di comporre una ballata sulle fanciulle come lei, non bellissime ma graziose, di quelle che si sognano la notte, mentre le classiche bellezze si dimenticano dopo cinque minuti.

If the song says they were in love," replied the wizard, "then that's what happened, and their love will endure down the ages. Such is the power of poetry.

La medianoche se acerca, el fuego se marchita. Me quedaré un rato todavía, siempre me salen mejor las rimas junto a un fuego que se apaga.

That's the role of poetry, Ciri. To say what others cannot utter.

Doré mi sol así las olas y la espuma que en tu cuerpo canta, canta -más por tus senos que por tu garganta- do re mi sol la si la sol la si la.

I like masculine aesthetics. But I also write, make art, have written poetry, and like feminine aesthetics as well. I am probably seen as too masculine by some and as too feminine by others, depending on how stereotypical they are.

Expressions used almost exclusively in poetry ... tend to be concentrated in the oldest biblical texts. Generally, it may be said that these items existed during the archaic period of the language, later disappearing from normal use.

The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.

ordered me a sky from a florist

Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does.

Sometimes he lays his head on my lap and lets me comb his lovely hair for him; his combings are leaves of every tree in the wood and dryly susurrate around my feet.

For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.

In that flash of ecstasy she suddenly knew what all poetry, all music, all sculpture, except things like winged Assyrian Bulls, or the very broken pieces in the British museum, meant.

Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.