Poetry Quotes

"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder" "I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman" "If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time." "The sky is falling, the wind is calling, stand for something or die in the morning" "How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?" "Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes." "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." "As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin." "Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. " "If music be the food of love, play on." "Poetry is an act of peace" "You know how this is if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything brings me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me" "From your hips down to your feet I want to make a long journey" "Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow." "I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair." "I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body." "I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul." "The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot " "A poet can survive everything but a misprint." "Can beauty be so sad"