Poetry Quotes

"Clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky." "The moon like a flower in heaven’s high bower with silent delight sits and smiles on the night" "The angel that presided o’er my birth Said Little creature form’d of Joy and Mirth, Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth" "When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it" "This is not the profound, smouldering, lost love that poets speak of. This is an uncomfortable kick in the bollocks." "The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world" "I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty" "With me, poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion" "Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, spheres, and the like, but equations for the human emotions." "Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music." "I love you as one loves certain obscure things, secretly, between the shadow and the soul" "I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses" "There is rust in my mouth, the stain of an old kiss" "Love is the mystery of water and a star." "I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees."