Poetry Quotes - Page 37

• Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips.

  Tupac Shakur

  Way, Ships, Lips

  Song: I Get Around

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• I remember when you were born, it was dawn and the storm settled near my belly. And I rolled in the grass and spit out the gas, and I lit a match and the void went flash. And the sky split and the planets hit, balls of jade dropped and existence stopped.

  Patti Smith

  Sky, Storm, Dawn

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.44, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Life's full of loss, who knows the cost, living in the memory of the love that never was.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Memories, Loss, Cost

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• Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Heart, Eye, Light

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• Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Summer, Teenage, Pumps

  Song: Blinded by the Light

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• Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.

  Bob Dylan

  Capes, Cages, Steps

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe.

  Bob Dylan

  Drinking, Princess, Thinking

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• Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.

  Neil Young

  Horse, Heart, Dark

  Song: Tell Me Why-live

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• Still looking for that blue jean, baby queen, prettiest girl that I ever seen. See her shake on the movie screen, Jimmy Dean.

  David Essex

  Girl, Baby, Prettiest

  "Rock On". Album: Rock On, 1973.

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• The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.

  John Denver

  Mother, Father, Wind

  Song: The Flower That Shattered The Stone, Album: The Flower That Shattered The Stone

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• The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting, ever new.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Views, Hands

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.122, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.

  Leonard Cohen

  Summer, Swimming, Moon

  Song: Closing Time, Album: The Future, 1992

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• This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Morning, Children, Wings

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• We believe we will raise the sky, we got to fly over the land, over the sea. Fate unwinds and if we die, souls arise. God, do not seize me please.

  Patti Smith

  Believe, Fate, Sea

  Patti Smith (2015). “Patti Smith Collected Lyrics, 1970–2015”, p.73, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time.

  Neil Young

  Fall, Water, Forests

  Neil Young (2014). “Special Deluxe: A Memoir of Life & Cars”, p.119, Penguin

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• When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.

  Steve Winwood

  Heart, Night, Rhythm

  Song: Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?

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• When you touch me there, honey, makes my blood perspire, you got my body flaming like a California fire. Pulsing, pounding, pushing no longer in control, heatwave in my brain, smolder in my soul.

  Alice Cooper

  Fire, Blood, California

  Song: Working Up A Sweat, Album: Muscle of Love, 1973

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• Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride.

  Lou Reed

  Pain, Lovers, Brides

  Lou Reed (2008). “Pass Thru Fire: The Collected Lyrics”, p.100, Da Capo Press

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• You make a right on L, make a left on O, come to a green light and that's when you can go. You keep straight on V, until you come to E, that's when you see a big sign that say's welcome to Love Street.

  R. Kelly

  Light, Green, Welcome

  Song: Love Street, Album: Happy People / U Saved Me

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• You snipe so steady, you snub so snide, so rip and ready to diminish and deride.

  Joni Mitchell

  Rip, Ready, Steady

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• Young and old will sit and judge unfeeling, while the empty churches' bells are pealing. And the green hills lay ignored, untended, lonely watchers remain unbefriended.

  Pete Townshend

  Lonely, Church Bells, Judging

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• Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless.

  Wes Nisker

  Spiritual, Crazy, Expression

  Scoop Nisker, Wes Nisker (1990). “Crazy Wisdom”

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• The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry.

  Leopold Schefer

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• A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

  E. B. White

  Doe, Veils, Littles

  1942 One Man's Meat, 'Poetr y'.

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• Poetry is a mug's game.

  T. S. Eliot

  Games, Mug, Poetry Is

  T.S. Eliot (2016). “The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932–1933”, p.22, Faber & Faber

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