Quotes About Poetry

Let now the chimneys blaze And cups o'erflow with wine; Let well-tuned words amaze With harmony divine.

Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry, about the country, the suburbs and the seaside. Then there comes love... and increasingly; the fear of death.

But thy eternal summer shall not fade.

Then she says, 'I love you.' Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.

Two of the hardest words in the language to rhyme are life and love. Of all words!

O lovely O most charming pug Thy gracefull air and heavenly mug ... His noses cast is of the roman He is a very pretty weoman I could not get a rhyme for roman And was obliged to call it weoman.

Love grows by not giving to us. And if our passion for poetry lives on and persists, it is because poetry offers us only its bits of lint.

All in green went my love riding

For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.

The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.

I love poetry and my country above all else in the world.

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.

I love the language, it sounds as if it should be writ on satin with syllables which breathe of the sweet South

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.

So much inspires me. People living their lives with courage, beauty of all kinds, nature in all its aspects, people I love and people I hardly know, and, of course, other poets.

I love you on the surface of seas Red like the egg when it is green

That's what poems are for, unlivable love.

I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

You can't write a sonnet if you have to look up the spelling of each word as you go.

I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.

Some sorrows can only be cured by suicide or a sonnet.