Quotes of: Epic-poetry Keyword

For those who sense and comprehend, They know that heaven is at hand; The river blue which stream and stream, It has the pictures of my dream.

The Rising Lines of Wonderment: Poetry

Poetry is another name for a person’s telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one’s own perceptions.

Speech and Power of Expression: On Language, Esthetics, and Belief

I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences. No, no! Genuine poetry is not the scum of the heart.

Selected Letters

My nerves were wrapped so tight I could explode at any second. Some jaguar reciting poetry was not helping. “Just tell me which way to go, Shakespeare.

Moonlight

Leave me alone; I can’t struggle when I have the whole world on my side.

A moment with God ; Poetry

You are alone, I am alone; we don’t get together why we complain so much.

A moment with God ; Poetry

I must forget you forever; that kind face, beautiful smile and heartbreaking black eyes, I should have known that, angels are not made for humans.

A moment with God ; Poetry

Humans have nothing to do with angels and fairies, then why still I love you?

A moment with God ; Poetry

I have a copy of you in my brain; when you make me angry I do very bad things to you.

A moment with God ; Poetry

I love you and I will stand on your side even if the whole world is against you.

A moment with God ; Poetry

If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules will be: To remember to forget that there are any such things as sunshine and music in the world.

Nightmare Abbey

If I wrote the word flower, would it still grow like a flower? If I wrote a poem concerning a river, would the water still flow in the eyes of the reader?

No Women in Poetry

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or perhaps you don't know, but it's all the same.

Old Bugs

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

Long Walk to Freedom

The mind-blowing, ridiculous sex which was the stuff of both poetry and porn - so unlike anything else I had ever experienced before.

Love the One You're With

My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.

The Selected Poetry

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets

The sky, I thought, is not so grand; I 'most could touch it with my hand! And reaching up my hand to try, I screamed to feel it touch the sky.

The Selected Poetry

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion, it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from thes...

Tradition and the Individual Talent: An Essay

There are good reasons to learn how to read. Poetry isn't one of them... Why can't poets just say what they want to say and then shut up?

Okay for Now

Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the infinite sea, and so make it finite. The result is mental exhaustion. To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.

Orthodoxy