#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

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#beauty #blow #easy #handshake #hear

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#cynicism #depict #experiment #hazardous #humour

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body with a sword, a symbolic penis. ↗

— Andrea Dworkin

#body #born #genre #head #her

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#future #image #language #newness #opens