Quotes of: Epic-poetry Keyword

Nobody reads poetry anymore So who the hell are you I see bent over this book?

Love

How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things? I would like to shelter it, among remote lost objects, in some dark and silent place that doesn’t resonate when your dept...

Ahead of All Parting: The Selected Poetry and Prose

Oh, how clearly I see your faults! Such distinctly highlighted flaws; it's as if the sun and moon mean to keep them illuminated in my eyes. My mind is quick to spell out a simple remedy for those defects. But alas, poor me! My own faults―which I on...

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

Oh, stormy stormy world, The days you were not swirled Around with mist and cloud, Or wrapped as in a shroud, And the sun’s brilliant ball Was not in part or all Obscured from mortal view— Were days so very few I can but wonder whence I get the l...

The Poetry of Robert Frost

Always be drunk. That’s it! The great imperative! In order not to feel Time’s horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, Get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk. And if you som...

Charles Baudelaire

Let them shoot us in the head, My blood will grow roots and will blossom.

The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

Where the bright seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel trumpets blow.

The Complete Poetry

ABYSS Our country lives Among the dead And dies among the living Sometimes.

The Condemned Apple: Selected Poetry

I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light.

Chase the Wind: A Book of Poetry

To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

The Complete Poems

Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise

Complete Poems

The pleasure we feel, reading a poem, is our assurance of its integrity.

Claims for Poetry

Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes.

Crescent

A daily diet of God’s Word is guaranteed to bless.

Double Vision: Seeing God in Everyday Life Through Devotions and Poetry

Dreaming is the poetry of Life, and we must be forgiven if we indulge in it a little.

Five Speeches to P.E.N. Clubs and a Letter

Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

The Fellowship of the Ring

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...

A Familiar Rain

... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood ...

A Familiar Rain

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

Baby

poetry’s favourite moment is when one loses one’s footing because of a landslide or seismic shaking of thought

Brisees

Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

Collected Poems, 1909-1962