Dark poetry quotes:

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  • I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry. -- Rick Springfield
  • In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you. -- Abbas Kiarostami
  • Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. -- Anthony Hecht
  • I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out. -- Pink
  • Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. -- Tomas Transtromer
  • My poems tend to be more celebratory and lyrical, and the novels so far pretty dark. Poetry doesn't seem to me to be an appropriate tool for exploring that. -- John Burnside
  • Poetry is the dark side of the moon, -- Charles Wright
  • Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration. -- Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley. -- Charles Simic
  • The dark night was the first book of poetry and the constellations were the poems. -- Chet Raymo
  • The ethos and critique are of poetry, which becomes a rich dark with a phosphorescence of lyric as witness. -- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
  • I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark. -- Erica Jong
  • We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark, and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
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