Quotes About Poetry

Cuanto más inteligente es una mujer, más hermosa la veo. Me encantan las que se maquillan con conocimiento, poesía, buena música y bellas palabras.

lo lúdico es también cómplice del poeta en muchos casos.

Un soir, l'âme du vin chantait dans les bouteilles»

Un soir, l'âme du vin chantait dans les bouteilles»

Tu sèmes des syllabes pour récolter des étoiles

Y hay una sola saliva y un solo sabor a fruta madura, y yo te siento temblar contra mí como una luna en el agua.

oír el fragor de la luna apoyando contra su oreja la palma de una pequeña mano un poco húmeda por el amor o por una taza de té.

y uno está tan triste, Horacio, porque todo es hermoso...

As if the species in every individual were on guard against letting himself go too far along the road of tolerance, intelligent doubt, sentimental vacillation. At some given point the callus, the sclerosis, the definition is born: black or white, radical or conservative, homo- or heterosexual, the San Lorenzo team or the Boca Juniors, meat or vegetables, business or poetry.

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

These poems they are things I do in the dark reaching for you whoever you are from "These Poems

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think." June Jordan

The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.

One of the ex-sucias publishes a poem about you online. It's called "El Puto

You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still. —SHAKESPEARE, Sonnet 104

I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used to enter poetry competitions, and I don't think I ever lost one. So I had the idea for a while of being some kind of poet.

I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have 20 verses to get your point across.

Math. . . . [is] akin to poetry: a way of taking a big idea and condensing and honing it until it communicates exactly the right information.

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

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Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.