Beautiful Poetry quotes:

Send

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence -- William Arthur Ward
Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it. -- Rumi
A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson -- Matt Groening
Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It's a holy book, it has incredible literature in it and beautiful poetry. -- Patti Smith
I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while. -- Naguib Mahfouz
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. -- Chinua Achebe
It's beautiful, it's poetry in motion. -- Joe Teti
Our parents prayer is the most beautiful poetry and expectations -- cG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=
Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone. -- Roque Dalton
Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things. -- Matthew Arnold
I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words. -- Theodore Roethke
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone! -- Edith Schaeffer
We grooved together with a rhythm so beautiful that I could feel the moment turned into poetry. -- Dominic Riccitello
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it. -- Matsuo Basho
Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony. -- Horace Walpole
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. -- Mahmoud Darwish
I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful. -- Bobby Green
When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry. -- Eve Merriam
I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you -- Shane Koyczan
Fiction and poetry are my first loves, but the really beautiful lyrical essay can do so much that other forms cannot. -- Chris Abani
I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives. -- Peleg Top
We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it. -- David Pajo
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. -- John Holmes
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry. -- J. D. Salinger
I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it. -- Helen Mirren
What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves! -- George Matthew Adams
Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting, as she is here in Virgil. -- Michel de Montaigne
Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings. -- Mattie Stepanek
In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories. -- Kim Edwards

Send