Poetry Quotes

"In you, the rivers sing and my soul flees in them." "I want to write the saddest lines tonight." "You know how it is in love, how like a patient tree the heart grows." "All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead." "And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture." "I look on the nights as a cup on which I have filled to the brim with my loneliness and thrown to the sky" "The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies" "Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light" "Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are" "Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote" "I have no ambitions nor desires. To be poet is not my ambition, it's my way of being alone." "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet" "And your very flesh shall be a great poem." "I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars." "To have great poets, there must be great audiences."