Quotes of: Modern-poetry Keyword

Smoke your pain but keep the ashes forever.

A moment with God ; Poetry

Let Your Inhibitions Run Free

Sweet Nectar an Anthology of Poetry

The important thing in life is to be.

Small Portion: a little taste of poetry

I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.

Shakespeare in Love: A Screenplay

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

Sculpting in Time

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

The Poetic Principle

...the collective wisdom of humanity [is] enshrined in its poetry.

Tiger, Tiger

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.

Miller Williams

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

Oscar Wilde

I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.

Richelle E. Goodrich

The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.

Richelle E. Goodrich

To truly understand poetry one must understand themselves from within one’s self.

Richard M Knittle Jr.

I am in love with the serendipitous poetry with which this universe expresses itself.

Steve Maraboli

Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Your smile is poetry to my soul igniting flames of old

Micheline Jean Louis

Poetry is nothing if it exists only in books. One has to find it in one's own life.

Marty Rubin

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

Manuel Puig

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.

Jerry B. Jenkins

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Natasha Trethewey