Poetry Quotes

"Poetry is an act of peace" "You know how this is if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything brings me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me" "From your hips down to your feet I want to make a long journey" "Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow." "I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair." "I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body." "I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul." "The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot " "A poet can survive everything but a misprint." "Can beauty be so sad" "The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the same." "The brain is wider than the sky " "I am younger each year at the first snow Please be my alarm clock Love and stop me in time" "Always be a poet, even in prose" "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough."