#poetry

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#ask #before #complain #consciences #examine

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#aristocracy #contemporary #every #fallen #feels

The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#dreams #function #give #great #our

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#ceaselessly #drunk #drunken #escape #hour

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