#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

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#career #ever #feel #fundamentally #game

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#become #goes #immediate #like #music

Love is the poetry of the senses. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#love is #poetry #senses

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#beauty #difficulty #gravest #important #making