Poetry Quotes

"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture." "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks." "Another glorious day the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue " "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry " "A word is dead when it is said, some say I say it just begins to live that day " "In every Infant’s cry of fear" "The mind-forg’d manacles I hear" "The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the e" "I, too, sing America " "Montage of a Dream Deferred " "Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me?" "Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you." "I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world." "Eternity is in love with the productions of time" "It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted." "The lyf so short the craft so long to lerne" "I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear" "I will lift my voice with the sparrow and the wren" "A little bit of the legend works because it's just poetry" "O Rose thou art sick"