Quotes of: Epic-poetry Keyword

I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes— They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shadows in love’s frenzied stifled throes And yet I am, and live—like vapours to...

"I Am": The Selected Poetry of John Clare

The distinctive features of the world's civilisations are not simply and solely the giraffe and the city of Rome, as the children may perhaps have been led to imagine on the first evening, but also the elephant and the country of Denmark, beside many...

Independent People

Patience isn't tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control force you to wait with baited breath knowing the outcome...

Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Robert Frost didn’t like to explain his poems—and for good reason: to explain a poem is to suck the air from its lungs. This does not mean, however, that poets shouldn’t talk about their poetry, or that one shouldn’t ask questions about it. R...

Passwords Primeval: 20 American Poets in their Own Words

Here with me, Near to me, Next to me, You put a hex on me, that fills me with Joy. Beside me, Inside of me, You hide in me, what you don't want others to know, what others won't understand. Safe in your embrace, the warmth of your face, takes me to a...

Visions II: The Poetry of Life

I love being able to see an un-written future.

Drowning Silence Poetry

I will never take what is never given, but I will receive to what is given.

Drowning Silence Poetry

What, you don’t think I’m capable of poetry after sex?

The Fiery Heart

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

Beach Music

I was completely devoted to reading and books from the age of seven. It took until I was 18 to have the confidence to write poetry.

Christopher Koch

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays.

Patrick White

Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works.

Michael Leunig

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

W. H. Auden

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

I Made My Boy Out of Poetry

Poetry is the whispering of a truth by the shouting of the best possible lies

I Threw a Stone: A Collection of Poems

We are all alone; the difference is someone of us in the bed and some of us on the street.

A moment with God ; Poetry

I never believed that angels exist, until I met you.

A moment with God ; Poetry

Angels do exist it is people who cannot see them.

A moment with God ; Poetry