Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

I suppose that's how it looks in prose. But it's very different if you look at it through poetry…and I think it's nicer…' Anne recovered herself and her eyes shone and her cheeks flushed… 'to look at it through poetry.

Anne of Avonlea

When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is not because I deliberately put it there but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out poetry.

The Highest Tide

In the midst of all of this perfect beauty, timeless since the days of Eve, it's the touch of God creating miracles, if in your heart you just believe.

Just Believe: A Collection of Christian Poetry and Photo-Quotes

The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Fle...

Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America

When the hour draws near for you to depart, I shall look upon the clock and curse; and the lips you caressed so tenderly shall tremble with lover's thirst.

Sweet Faded Ink: A Poetry Collection

Good poetry does not exist merely for the sake of itself, but rather, is a byproduct of yearning and growth; great poetry canonizes that yearning for the growth of others.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Prayer makes coffee shops of our souls, places that celebrate and savor the presence and lordship of God in our lives. It must be unceasing and constant. It must become who we are.

Mud and Poetry: Love, Sex, and the Sacred

Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.

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

Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you.

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

They say to never look back. But sometimes I do. It’s gratifying to see how far I’ve come.

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

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem.

Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

Samantha reminds me of the difference between what is illusion and what is real. I am reminded whenever I forget that we choose our truth and whether to embrace it or not.

Liquid Me: A Collection of Poetry and Prose

I am a single note, a tone that peals in the wind. I am in the magic of the moment and then he returns, flowing toward me around the thick immense bark of the Sequoia.

Liquid Me: A Collection of Poetry and Prose

Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)

Love Finds You in Poetry, Texas

Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

"The rain to the wind said, 'You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed. That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged -- though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

The Poetry of Robert Frost

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

The Poetry of Robert Frost

If the partridge didn't call at the wrong moment, Neither the hunter nor the falcon would know of it. It follows from this point also, That everyone's voice betrays him.

The Poetry of Rahman Baba: Poet of the Pakhtuns

In this room I grew. So many lessons I learned Opportunities I gained Criticisms I gracefully endured In this room, I made my mark".

Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living

Alas! Alas! When in the skies there are no limits only the forceful perseverance of the mind stripping through clouds and creating the ever so beautiful shades of abundant success.

Trails to the Stream: Poetry and Inspiration for Everyday Living

I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best ...

John Fuller