Poetry Quotes

"You are always new the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest" "Bring me all of your dreams you dreamer bring me all your heart melodies" "The night is beautiful so the faces of my people" "Between the idea and the reality between the motion and the act falls the Shadow" "All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry" "And so being young and dipt in folly I fell in love with melancholy" "Poetry should be able to comprehend the earth" "Love is space and time measured by the heart" "Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems." "Bring me the sunset in a cup" "Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky." "The moon like a flower in heaven’s high bower with silent delight sits and smiles on the night" "The angel that presided o’er my birth Said Little creature form’d of Joy and Mirth, Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth" "When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it" "This is not the profound, smouldering, lost love that poets speak of. This is an uncomfortable kick in the bollocks." "The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world" "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty" "With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion" "Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, spheres, and the like, but equations for the human emotions." "Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."