Quotes of: Epic-poetry Keyword

Poetry and beauty are born out of pain. This is their glory, this is our gain.

Love, Adventure and Other Noble Quests

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

Selected Poems

Daisy, simple and discreet flower, That earned the heart of this poet.

Small Portion: a little taste of poetry

Happiness is the inner poetry of women, just as fine clothes are the mask of beauty

Père Goriot

love was never meant to be just a metaphor between the pages of poetry.

A touch, a tear, a tempest

Obstacles without optimism can overturn opportunities for growth, hope and success.

Wings of the Wind: A Cornucopia of Poetry

The short story seems like the best of all possible worlds. I do feel it is closer to writing poetry than to writing a novel, with its requirements of concentration and economy.

James Lasdun

It is humor's job to laugh at the futility oft engendered by the improbable; but it is poetry's job to dream of the potentiality of that which is not impossible.

D.E. Navarro

Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.

Pablo Neruda

And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is something mystically sad and beautiful about how i will never see you again but meet you again and again in poetry.

Sanober Khan

poetry. i am not writing it. (make way for me please) it is my skin. dripping with light.

Sanober Khan

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Maya Angelou

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.

Anna Quindlen

Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time.

Mary Karr

In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty.

Seamus Heaney

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history.

Thomas Lynch

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

Julio Cortazar

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

Michael Leunig

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.

Horace Walpole