"Being me, from myself to banish, had I art impregnable my fortress unto all heart."
"Pure mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas." - Albert Einstein
"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, from what I know of hate, I think that ice is also great and would suffice."
"See the moon in the night, it's white white white, what's that it's saying good night, good night."
"The world of dew, a world of dew it is indeed, and yet, and yet."
"Poetry isn't defined by what's outside, by the structure, the rhyme scheme, the meter; it's defined by what's inside, by its sounds and its use of language and what it does with that language."
"Poetry is meant to help us feel new things and think new thoughts, to see connections between things that we wouldn't have thought to connect on our own."
"Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas." – Albert Einstein
"Look upon the poetry of the Lord... it is the universe."
"It's like we have so many emotions that we can't express to other people usually, but you can when it's a poem, right?"
"Rap might even be more challenging than poetry in some ways. Since you need to fit your lines to a rhythm and there's much more emphasis on wordplay."
"Roses are red, violets are blue, be my Valentine, I'm waiting for you."
"What's the point of making your poems all convoluted for no reason? The meaning should jump out at the reader, not force them to hunt for it."
"Dear Journal, I've been trying the art of poem writing. Poetry has a way of speaking to the heart and hiding secret messages."
"Poetry, love, poetry. These are the things we stay alive for."
"Science describes accurately from the outside; poetry describes accurately from the inside."
"To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour."
"Dearest creature in creation, studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse sounds like corpse, core, horse, and worse."
"Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice."
"Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. The atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust."
"That's the beauty of good poetry: the sheer amount of information that can be conveyed through so few words. It's stunning."
"For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee."
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn."
"Let us adore and bow before the Sovereign Lord of Might who turns away the shining day into the shades of night."
"Good poetry doesn't describe an experience; it is an experience."
"We are unpredictable, self-writing poems, vague, metaphorical, ambiguous, and sometimes exceedingly beautiful."
"Life's blade Deep cuts Many to burden and dust Some into diamonds."
"Good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."
"Drawn to Life, ever fraught with thought and zest and just no blunt woes."
"I believe that we read poetry to relate to the world. We see our lives through the words of a poet when we are incapable of expressing ourselves."
"It's hard to imagine that anyone out there could possibly feel the same things that you do to the depths that you feel them. Therein lies the beauty and surprise of poetry."
"Poetry is not made to be sucked up like a child's milkshake; it is much better sipped like a precious malt whiskey."
"A poem doesn't have to be long or complicated but it does have to be well-crafted and it can't be lazy."
"Poetry is completely subjective. What you like and don't like is completely up to you, and there's no right and wrong there at all."
"To me, poetry is like the epitome of the show don't tell rule. It's about showing it through language and form and rhythm."
"Every poem in this book has been rewritten 20 or 30 times until they're almost unrecognizable but a noticeable improvement on the original draft."
"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain."
"We did not teach him poetry, and it doesn't fit him either. It is nothing but a reminder, a Quran that is absolutely clear."
"I say it's the fire in my eyes, and the flash of my teeth, the swing in my waist, and the joy in my feet." (Praising Maya Angelou's technique)
"This program features young people and poetry, which means it's going to be fun, and it's going to be interesting."
"Poetry kind of consumes your life, it just doesn't stop, and it's a beautiful, wonderful thing that I would never, ever change."
"I am still completely in shock but I'm also quite proud that this nerdy little like passion project of mine got so many people talking about poetry."
"Poetry at the wrong time is madness, poetry at the right time is magic."
"If poetry is for you and helps you heal, then it doesn't really matter if it's good or not, it's fulfilling its purpose."
"Poetry can be a great tool for helping you sort out thoughts in your head, making sense of feelings, making sense of things that happened to you."
"You do not do, you do not do, any more black shoe."
"Philosophy doesn't get me through when I'm sick or when I'm depressed... but poetry can really open a new avenue of self-understanding."
"Verses as deep as haiku, tracks to leave behind the back foot as the feet of Kaiju."
"Poetry is the relationship... we need to start valuing the poetry far more than we value the poet."
"Poetry is the most intelligent form of artistic expression."
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light...don't go gently into that good night."
"Life... is like the fragrance of jasmine upon the gentle spring breeze."
"Poetry is about the manipulation and subjectivity of sound, giving a line a dozen meanings by using a word or sound that has a dozen denotations."
"Tiger, tiger, burning bright in the forest of the night, what immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
"Spring is here my beloved, so please come and don't torment me."
"Roses are red, violets are blue, you're all I think about, and it's so true."
"What are snowflakes if not pixels falling from the sky?"
"Nature's first green is gold. Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay."
"On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is the most lyrical, poetic writing. Every sentence is exquisite and completely packed and bursting at the seams with meaning."
"It's like poetry, so if they rhyme every stanza kind of rhymes with the last one."
"Many waters cannot quench love, nor can the floods drown it."
"I fear the darkness and the dying of the light."
"Is Instagram poetry just a new iteration of DIY culture?"
"For the last year any time I have walked into a bookshop I have seen a table full of poetry."
"The platform affects the poetry, no doubt about it."
"And the only word there spoken was the whispered word Lenore."
"A haiku about the other person: 'Brian my dude, how's it going today?'"
"Poetry is about transforming those demons, before they demonize us."
"Poetry is of course among art forms. It can be very personal and certainly everyone can have their own interpretation of the poetry that they're reading."
"Intellectual freedom depends upon material things, and poetry depends upon intellectual freedom."
"You're pretty like a rainbow because they're the sun and they're the sky."
"It always helps to read a poem after you hear it a second, third, fourth time."
"The language in the poem suggests that the duke is proud, possessive, controlling, vain, condescending, disingenuous, self-obsessed, and irrational."
"Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history."
"Tupac was a genius. It wasn't just rapping, you know what I mean? It wasn't just to make words rhyme, it was mainly to make it poetic."
"Tupac was passionate and poetic with his words, he knew how to inspire people especially communities of color."
"Hearing poetry read out loud gives you a sense of the throughlines of the poem, a more complete sense of it as a whole, and it can also just be an incredibly chill experience."
"One of the most prolific poets and storytellers in hip-hop."
"If you've come looking for hope, you've come to the right place. I'm the king of hope, and I even wrote a poem called hope."
"The gods will offer you chances, know them, take them. He can't beat death but he can beat death in life."
"Your rhyme scheme itself, like a film score, creates a commentary."
"I used to write poems and songs to God, and in my quiet time, I would share them with him."
"I'm definitely a songwriter, so yeah, that's poetry."
"Hellinger apparently dedicated a poem to Hitler in which he wrote, 'Hitler was no better or worse than any man'."
"What is poetry about? If you witness evil, you've got to express that evil in poetry."
"Telling someone that the moon is beautiful is a poetic way of saying I love you."
"Some aromas and flavors are gonna be unique to that whisky and that's when you get a little bit more poetic."
"But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate to know that for destruction ice is also great and would suffice."
"There's poetry and niceness in it but at the end of the day it's a tragic thing."
"It's called Burns night and is named after Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet."
"Ed his knife see rustic, we're ready slight friends."
"Ticking clocks are individualized symphonies, they blend into the background and become the cadence to your triumphant marks."
"Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially."
"Write more poetry and turn inspiration into tangible pieces of art."
"Few hearts like his with virtue warmed, few hearts with knowledge so informed."
"The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?"
"When it comes to atoms, language can only be used as poetry." - Niels Bohr
"Ended with a handshake pulled into an embrace, that is poetically beautiful."
"Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse fell off the clock."
"Roses are large, the sky is big. Mix them together and you'll know where to dig."
"I'll never forget that morning during the Clinton inauguration, and when Maya Angelou stepped to the microphone to the podium and recited 'On the Pulse of Morning,' one of the most exquisite pieces of prose ever."
"To destroy the beauty from which one came." - Sean Carter, better known as Jay-Z
"A world of dew, and within every dewdrop, a world of struggle. Breathless."
"Poetry allows you to process emotion and it allows you to express it and it it's crazy that such a low percentage of people actually use it as a tool to heal and as a tool to share."
"A poem is never actually finished, it just stops moving."
"The writing is just captivating and lyrical and poetic so sincere so honest so vulnerable."
"My thoughts do twine and bird about thee as wild vines about a tree."
"Drop heavily down, burst shattered everywhere."
"The image of vines wrapping around a tree reflects the poet's intense and uncontrollable passion."
"The imagery of nature fits both the sexual and spiritual aspects of the poem."
"The use of language reinforces the timeless nature of the poet's love."
"It's blowing in the wind, it's blowing in the wind."
"Documentary as brightly prosaic as it is darkly poetic."
"Spread your wings like the swallow, fly away."
"Love is the most important thing we have on this Earth yet we know it what it's worth, so I spread love through my verse."
"Poetry was so much bigger in the past than it is now."
"The poet felt the two did have a true loving relationship."
"The ordering of words puts a greater emphasis on the silence which the poet's grief has produced."
"The repetition brings us right back to the start of the poem."
"The poet expresses their thoughts and feelings."
"Writing poems is easy for me nowadays. All I have to do is choose the right words."
"For it will always end how it had begun... Behold.. The rising.. Sun."
"His poetry and philosophical works would remain influential in the four nations for thousands of years."
"I've done so many nice things for you, like wrote you a poem."
"British poetry is among the richest in the world."
"Romance and poetry, words meaning more than just they do on the surface."
"Everybody carries a literature of their own life, everybody carries a poem of their own life."
"From the poem he wrote... he was going to change the world."
"A spiderweb is a spell, spun of words of wonder, woven lace held in place by whispers made of thunder."
"I have one desire and the silence of the night, let me die at the edge of the sea." - Eminescu's poem
"Poets give expression to what lies deep inside the audience."
"Let's show that there is another way to express yourself through poetry. Let's highlight the dope [__] that's right."
"Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, cannon in front of them volleyed and thundered."
"Boldly they rode and well into the jaws of death, into the mouth of Hell rode the 600."
"Time is the enemy, the past threatens, the fastest weapon. You wouldn't make it past a second, and that's the question."
"Hip-hop allows you to say things poetically, short, put to music."
"Poetry helps make the intangible feel, well, more tangible."
"Rhyming is like this real beautiful thing that makes something make more sense to us."
"The poetry, that's tremendously good reason."
"It's wonderfully lyrical, it's like reading poetry."
"When you've experienced pure emotion, you can appreciate what poets like Shelley are talking about."
"It would be almost poetic and beautiful to win at Anfield."
"I'm a poet and I know it, and I'm flowing, and my mind is like an ocean."
"If you're utilizing devices such as polysyllabic rhyme schemes, punch lines, metaphors, simile, alliteration, if you're using the tools that define you as a lyricist, then you're lyrical."
"Street poetry, the imagery that he conjures up with his words every single time."
"The system of chivalry is an invention almost entirely poetical."
"Your eyes are like the North Star, wise men want to follow it."
"Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm up the Duff and so are you."
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted, One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place." - Emily Dickinson
"Poetry is actually very... you get me. Oh man, welcome back to the great show."
"I remember walking on the trail in Austin and I told you a poem that reminded me of you, which made me cry and love you so much."
"There's something about it, it's almost poetic."
"It's good and bad and there's a great poem about that that I love that I kind of Bleakley referenced at the beginning of this video by Khalil Gibran from collection poems called the Prophet."
"This poem perfectly captures the nihilistic philosophy of the character."
"The Quran was like poetry to me. When I read it, it was like connection."
"I broke generational curses with my cursive." - Rock Martian
"If dance is the poetry of the foot, then I'm Shakespeare."
"Don't let bullies get to you, write poems instead."
"Well, you don't need to. Anyway, here's the poem."
"At last the mighty task is done, resplendent in the western sun."
"Siberian Huskies are like watching poetry in motion."
"If that's not poetry then I don't know what is."
"I need you, like the winter needs the spring, like the summer needs the rain, I need you."
"Your love is like a burst of sunshine on a cloudy day."
"That was a beautifully entire if final or not."
"The darker the berry, the sweeter the juice, the darker the flesh, the deeper the roots."
"Mirror mirror on the wall, who has opened the most glamorous doors of them all?"
"I'm not a poet but I love my daughter, I miss her and it hurts, and it won't go away." - Wesley Hadzell
"She belongs to everyone and yet to no one. Her love can be tender and inspired, but there will always be a vaguely elusive quality about it, like a half-remembered song."
"All the information you need to really enjoy a poem should be there on the page and anything else is just extra. It's a bonus."
"You can write your own story so to speak, so if you are a poet in terms of either how you wish life could play out, you know that's a type of poetry."
"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive."
"Julia, your heart is like a feather even in bad weather, I'll love you forever."
"Peace in the chaos. It's kind of like poetic, you know?"
"He's a poet, so he's painting pictures of things that he's seen in his life or in his neighborhood."
"Life does self-organization, writing your own poetry. He is absolutely ignoring all of this new knowledge."
"Poetry in the form of art is meant to penetrate bone and marrow."
"I wrote my first poem at the age of four or five."
"Beneath the tides of sleep and time, strange fish are moving."
"From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire."
"Sometimes his poetry is all about narrative and pulling you in, but sometimes he is art for art's sake."
"You have to approach poetry with the understanding that this is someone's favorite poem."
"There is pleasure in the pathless woods." — Lord Byron
"There's a poet inside of me that's always looking for a metaphor."
"All those moments will be lost like tears in rain."
"When I make you want to understand, I bring the thunder, lightning strike, and with the pin, it's so frightening, it's like a perfect 10 when I strike in."
"I was moved so much by this stupendous effort of human ingenuity human cooperation multinational and I expressed my attempted to express my poetic um fascination and and interest."
"You're my favorite person, OMG, and a top-tier poet."
"The imagery he uses to bring whimsical poetry into visual forms is essential to the experience of a Dr. Seuss work."
"It's just a very cryptic poem, but it's a fun poem."
"Some of you are gonna receive a letter or a note, this offering, this poet, and this kiss."
"It's like a tone poem happening with its environment."
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and I took the one less traveled by."
"The poet uses simple language and common vocabulary, but the poem has great depth in its philosophy."
"It's a poetic message that's sure to resonate with a lot of people."
"I don't recognize this poem, it seems very random."
"Oh Caledonia stern and wild meet nurse for a poetic child land of brown heath and shaggy wood land of the mountain and the flood land of my sires."
"Love is poetry – logical yet illogical, everywhere yet elusive."
"It was just so well done, and obviously the MVP for me of the entire inauguration was Amanda Gorman. That poem that she read was the most riveting six minutes I've ever seen in modern inauguration day history."
"Right now is the time to act on your passions whether you still feel that passion or not."