Poetry Quotes

"Life is not a crystal stair, but a journey full of struggles and songs." "How frail the human heart must be a mirrored pool of thought " "Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air" "The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life? Answer: That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse" "Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling" "I am he that walks with the tender and growing night" "I sing the body electric" "The earth laughs in flowers " "It is my aim, and every poet's, to have each work as a whole and each separate paragraph too, to be the whole story, with beginning, middle, climax, and end." "We are all writing God's poem" "Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture." "Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks." "Another glorious day the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue " "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry " "A word is dead when it is said, some say I say it just begins to live that day "