Poetry Quotes - Page 29

• Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Song, Learning, Men

  'Julian and Maddalo' (1818) l. 544

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• No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less.

  A. Ray Olpin

  Learning, Thinking, Years

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• Starry Starry night
  Paint your palette blue and gray
  Look out on a summer's day
  With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
  Shadows on the hills
  Sketch the trees and the daffodils
  Catch the breeze and the winter chills
  In colors on the snowy linen land.

  Don McLean

  Summer, Song, Eye

  Song: Vincent

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• They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.

  John Keats

  Horse, Pegasus, Rocking Horses

  'Sleep and Poetry' (1817) l. 186

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• Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Philosophy, Particles

  "The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861".

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• Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

  Paulo Coelho

  Art, Writing, Naked

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 09, 2011

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• Still looking for that blue jean, baby queen, prettiest girl that I ever seen. See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean.

  David Essex

  Girl, Baby, Prettiest

  "Rock On". Album: Rock On, 1973.

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• The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.

  John Denver

  Mother, Father, Wind

  Song: The Flower That Shattered The Stone, Album: The Flower That Shattered The Stone

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• The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting, ever new.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Views, Hands

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.122, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.

  Leonard Cohen

  Summer, Swimming, Moon

  Song: Closing Time, Album: The Future, 1992

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• This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Morning, Children, Wings

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• We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.

  Patti Smith

  Believe, Fate, Sea

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.73, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.

  Neil Young

  Fall, Water, Forests

  Neil Young (2014). “Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars”, p.119, Penguin

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• When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.

  Steve Winwood

  Heart, Night, Rhythm

  Song: Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?

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• When you touch me there, honey, makes my blood perspire, you got my body flaming like a California fire. Pulsing, pounding, pushing no longer in control, heatwave in my brain, smolder in my soul.

  Alice Cooper

  Fire, Blood, California

  Song: Working Up A Sweat, Album: Muscle of Love, 1973

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• Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

  Lou Reed

  Pain, Lovers, Brides

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.100, Da Capo Press

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• You make a right on L, make a left on O, come to a green light and that's when you can go. You keep straight on V, until you come to E, that's when you see a big sign that say's welcome to Love Street.

  R. Kelly

  Light, Green, Welcome

  Song: Love Street, Album: Happy People / U Saved Me

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• You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

  Joni Mitchell

  Rip, Ready, Steady

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• Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended.

  Pete Townshend

  Lonely, Church Bells, Judging

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• Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

  Wes Nisker

  Spiritual, Crazy, Expression

  Scoop Nisker, Wes Nisker (1990). “Crazy Wisdom”

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• The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

  Leopold Schefer

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• A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

  E. B. White

  Doe, Veils, Littles

  1942 One Man's Meat, 'Poetr y'.

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• Poetry is a mug's game.

  T. S. Eliot

  Games, Mug, Poetry Is

  T.S. Eliot (2016). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932–1933”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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• When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again.

  T. S. Eliot

  Done, Certain, Great Poet

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Notes towards the Definition of Culture”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry should be common in experience but uncommon in books.

  Robert Frost

  Book, Common, Should

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