#poetry

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#among #even #fact #feels #france

Memory revises me. ↗

— Li-Young Lee

#love

What is a woman that you forsake her And the hearth fire and the home acre To go with that old grey widow-maker? ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#home

But you hate poetry! Yes, but you make me want to write it. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #poetry #tessa-gray #love

When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go. ↗

— Kim Sowol

#heartache #heartbreak #korean-poetry #letting-go #love

In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace. ↗

— Aberjhani

#famous-poets #famous-quotes #famous-quotes-from-classic-books #flowers #global-village

I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words. ↗

— Ovid

#poetry #words #love

You are my strength when I am weak You are my shield when I am hurting Whatever you say unto me Lord I will do ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

Knowing that you knew everything about us before we were born Lord, your love is amazing ↗

— April Nichole

#poetry #religious #faith

In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. ↗

— Paul Valery

#everything #impossible #must #poetry #said