Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

There is a charm in Solitude that cheers A feeling that the world knows nothing of A green delight the wounded mind endears After the hustling world is broken off

John Clare: Selected Poetry and Prose

What exists in this heart is not imaginary. This hand would not grasp air in trying to hold you, nor this eye blind itself in searching for you in vain.

Sweet Faded Ink: A Poetry Collection

The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.

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

If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.

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

esteem you of greater worth than you feel deserving. demand you prove that worth.

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

Sail through the good days, and on bad days pick a spot of blue sky to steer toward.

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

Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?

The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert

Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire: Who blows it not, nor doth control A faint desire,

The Temple: The Poetry of George Herbert

Sublime wonders lie in store, I am shown a regal residence; a mighty kingdom, an empire with more grandeur than before ...

Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan

We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.

A Rosario Castellanos Reader: An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays and Drama

If I listened to all the noise in the world I would have many standards to conform to But the zeal to succeed Cuts through the racket

Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living

For if you look closely At the so called idols of the world They have something in common. They were ignorant They ignored the noise They created their own path.

Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living

The truth is .. I'm okay with people not liking me. I'm not okay with them pretending that they do. Keep it real. Everybody ain't for everybody.

The Truth as I See It: In Poetry & Prose

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.

Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

15. For if you look closely At the so called idols of the world They have something in common. They were ignorant They ignored the noise They created their own path.

Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living

Walking with the projected chest Feeling like you just won The race has been tough But the joy of winning is too good;

Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living

You are your art Your are your song You are your craft. You are all the immaculate designs of which you dream;

Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living

Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.

Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking

I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.

Anne Stevenson

I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a wider pattern of poetry about national incidents, events, preoccupations; and to spend a great deal of time going to schools tryi...

Andrew Motion

My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time.

Herschel Walker