Fearless Poetry Quotes

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward. ~ Jim Morrison

I got a bit obsessed with the whole English language and was writing journals and poetry. I've always been intrigued about psychology and philosophy and how people's minds work. ~ Lara Pulver

Art's effect is due to the tension resulting from the clash of the collocation of elements of two (or more) systems of interpretation. This conflict has the function of breaking down automatism of perception and occurs simultaneously on the many levels of a work of art ... All levels may carry meaning. ~ Yuri Lotman

Happy be Thy world
The world forgetting by the forgotten world;
The failed attempts to remember the need to forget;

Naturally, Eventually, Gradually, Usually, Finally ; Thy Allies will accompany you and end this Abruptly.

For Thy, it may seem simple;

Oh Shameless Crook! Thy have done it before and will do it again and when thy does it -- seems that only the innocence weeps. ~ Ranjani Ramachandran

Love songs or poetry?
Ambrose: Love songs–you get the best of both, poetry set to music.
And you can't dance to poetry. ~ Amy Harmon

For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy. ~ Emily Dickinson

The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros's work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us. ~ Andre Breton

Il pleure dans mon coeur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.
Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town. ~ Paul Verlaine

I also believe, along with Keats, that the Poetry of Earth is never dead, as long as Spring succeeds Winter, and man is there to perceive it ... And finally, I believe that because all these things are true, Ives' Unanswered Question has an answer. I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I know the answer is Yes. ~ Leonard Bernstein

The world contained in a seed, Determined by its program. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Perhaps the year and a half spent
trying to make sense of all this has finally drained me
Maybe, just maybe, I always know I deserved better, but was too afraid to accept it ~ Samantha King

Through the small windows, through the plane tree
branches, new lime-green leaves, it's no longer
winter. He stands naked for a moment,

eager for company, invites it, knows.
His heart is thumping hard inside his chest.
He leans his head onto the edge, eyes closed. ~ Stuart Barnes

And you you
bitch no irritating
questions re love and permanence only
an unrolling lifetime here
between your rocking thighs
and the semblance of motion ~ Al Purdy

Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me instead of being anxious or estranged, just being present in the world. ~ Mike Young

The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right. ~ Flora Rheta Schreiber

Poets
A poet is like a plant.
He can get by with
a little water
and a bit of light to grow ~
but a true poet needs
to be submerged in shit
for half his life
and surrounded by darkness
the other half
for his poetry
to truly flower. ~ Beryl Dov

Veins of ivy scale stones,
find footholds but
the caretaker cuts
earth short, peels
creepers from Cotswold
rock and props the dead
head to head so they won't
topple like drunks
on their moss-soft shadows. ~ Jalina Mhyana

Free diving is not entirely free: to go down you leave behind ~ Brook Emery

Painting is a kind of visual poetry as poetry is a kind of verbal painting. ~ Ahdaf Soueif

When my world
was nothing but darkness
I set my soul on fire. ~ Liz Newman

Alive. This music rocks
me. I drive the interstate,
watch faces come and go on either
side. I am free to be sung to;
I am free to sing. This woman
can cross any line. ~ Joy Harjo

We keep asking where they have gone
those years we remember and we
reach for them like hands in the night ~ W.S. Merwin

From the snap of the ball to the snap of the first bone is closer to four seconds than to five.
and Lawrence Taylor (fearless tackle) WE all have fears, we all have fears!! ~ Michael Lewis

Poetry is a tree with very deep roots and while there may be excitement about this or that new little branch, you're not going to make anything original by just doing whatever's being rewarded at the moment. ~ Joan Larkin

Stand up.
Face the new day.
Reach a little farther.
Do what you fear you cannot do.
Be bold. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I love you in my very own way.
Like a stone loves the mosses around it
Like a sea loves the pebbles in it
Like a coincidence ...
Taking you as the way you are,
With all the bruises, scars and broken parts all around you and your heart.
I love you in my very own way
By throwing the stone, the mosses, the sea and the pebbles to your head
Like i want to kill you.
Just because of envying the love
That my heart spend on you. ~ Arzum Uzun

No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes. ~ Erasmus Darwin

There are several more careers more engaging to follow than that of poetry. But the circumstances of one's birth, the conduct of one's parents, the current economic structure of society, and a thousand other local factors have as much or more to say about successions to such occupations, the naive volitions of the poet to the contrary. ~ Hart Crane

In the corner of the painting of success
the signature is blurred ~ Kelli Russell Agodon

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness. ~ James Gates Percival

I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things. ~ John Fuller

They say that love has never been immortal. That it is only the songs, books, and movies which instill this thought in our mind. But tell me then why does my heart yearn to just have a glimpse of you every moment of my life? Why do I keep missing you? Why do I feel restless untill I have spoken to you? Why do I keep thinking about you every night lying there in my bed? Why do I feel incomplete without you in my life? ~ Avijeet Das