Poetry Quotes

"Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem" "We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams." "Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?" "Every day begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams for the future" "Tonight I can write the saddest lines" "I want to see thirst inside the syllables" "In what language does rain fall over tormented cities" "The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you" "Delicious autumn my very soul is wedded to it and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns" "A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep" "I've known rivers" "To sorrow I bade good morrow" "Wine is bottled poetry" "Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood" "Immature poets imitate mature poets steal" "Life is for the living, death is for the dead. Let life be like music and death a note unsaid" "Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow" "Moonlight is sculpture" "We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry." "The poetry of the earth is never dead"