Poetry Quotes - Page 19

• He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.

  George Sand

  Noble, Delight, Lines

  George Sand (1800). “The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).”, p.20

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• I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world.

  Russell Baker

  Lonely, Loneliness, Years

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• A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

  Jean Cocteau

  Nurse, Rose, Doe

  Jean Cocteau (1926*). “A Call to Order, Written Between the Years 1918 and 1926 and Including "Cock and Harlequin", "Professional Secrets", and Other Critical Essays”

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• The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Children, Philosophical, Delight

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• Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

  Jean Cocteau

  Life, Art, Children

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• The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious.

  T. S. Eliot

  Crafts, Conscious, Ought

  T.S. Eliot (2010). “The Waste Land and Other Poems”, p.92, Broadview Press

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• The finest poetry was first experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Firsts, Finest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1628, Delphi Classics

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• It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

  Horace

  Interesting, Enough, Should

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, 99, 18 BC.

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• Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

  Horace

  Imperfection, Faults, Negligence

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, 351, 18 BC.

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• Let your poem be kept nine years.

  Horace

  Years, Nine, Nine Years

  "Ars Poetica". Poem by Horace, , 388, 18 BC.

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• A drainless shower
  Of light is poesy: 'tis the supreme of power;
  'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm.

  John Keats

  Light, Half, Arms

  John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.26

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• Gently touching with the charm of poetry.

  Lucretius

  Touching, Charm

  "De Rerum Natura". IV. 9,

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• You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Stars, Shining

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.17, SCB Distributors

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• Last night I saw your ghost pedalling a bicycle with a basket towards a moon as full as my heavy head and I wanted nothing more than to be sitting in that basket like ET with my glowing heart glowing right through my chest and my glowing finger pointing in the direction of our home.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Home, Heart

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• I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I know your life has been hard enough already.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Enough Already, Play Hard

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• Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Lonely, Heart

  Andrea Gibson (Poet) (2013). “Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns”, p.44, SCB Distributors

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• You panic button collector. You clock of beautiful ticks. You run out the door if you need to. You flock to the front row of your own class. You feather everything until you know you can always, always shake like a leaf on my family tree and know you belong here. You belong here and everything you feel is okay. Everything you feel is okay.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Running

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• My heart is still a leather jacket I am waiting to give to someone sweet.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Sweet, Heart

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• In your arms I forget what the yarn knows of sweaters. I forget how to hold myself together. So if I unfold now like a love letter tell me you'll write back soon. Tell me you'll still come untethered.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Writing, Yarn

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• I'm not lookin' for someone who can save me. Life rafts might keep you afloat but they rarely get you anywhere and I've got places I wanna go. So break me in two, peel back my rib cage and cover every page of my heart with love poems you will burn someday.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Heart, Two

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• So guess what, if I ever have my own team I am picking everyone first even the worst kid and the kid with the stutter like a skipping record 'cause I know all of us are scratched, even if you can't hear it when we speak.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Team, Kids

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• And we were Banksy on an overpass in New Orleans spray-painting porch lights on the hurricane. We were welcome mats for the un-forgiven. We never sold our windpipes to make a living. We were the letters sent to the wrong address, but opened anyway. We opened anyway.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, New Orleans, Light

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• Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Angel, Humanity, Age

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• Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Dream, Morning, Mind

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1854). “Memoirs of Celebrated Characters”, p.348

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• Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles.
  [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

  Horace

  Substance, Trifles, Verses

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