Poetry quotations

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◆ I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

- Bob Dylan99

◆ Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley99

◆ If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

- Emily Dickinson99

◆ Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

- Muriel Rukeyser99

◆ The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton99

◆ If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.

- David Carradine99

◆ Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.

- Allen Ginsberg99

◆ Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley99

◆ Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

- William Hazlitt99

◆ A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

- Paul Valery99

◆ To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

- Octavio Paz99

◆ A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

- Salman Rushdie99

◆ Heaven needed an angel and god sent for you, You are gone from me forever, Now what am I to do, I miss you now like never before, But I have to let you go, I will never forget you and this I need you to know, My heart breaks of sadness for the one that I adore, Your father in heaven has sent for you and he needs you more, Goodbye until we meet again, in my heart you'll always be, For always you will remain my sweetest memory.

- Rashida Rowe99

◆ When I first met you, you reached out to shake my hand. When I got to know you you reached out to understand my mind. When I liked you, you reached out and touched my heart When I loved you, you reached out and touched my soul When I thought I had nothing I had everything when I had you If were meant to be together let it be. If fate wants us to be forever ~ Lets wait and see.

- UnKnown99

◆ Be my love, Be my life Be my happiness, Be my wife Be my sadness, Be my tear Be my sorrow, Be my fear Be my EVERYTHING ..not now nor later But from yesterday til FOREVER.

- John Lee Delan99