#poetry

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

The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#poetry #sea #supernatural #beauty

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost ↗

— John Green

#poetry #today

I love romantic poetry. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#i love #love #poetry #romantic

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. ↗

— James Joyce

#against #always #apparently #artifice #even

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job. ↗

— Toi Derricotte

#asks #being #besides #care #experience

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. ↗

— William Blake

#fettered #fetters #flourish #human #human race