Surreal Poetry Quotes

you sat breeding
multiple & varied as a ghost ~ Will Alexander

Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long. ~ Mia Castile

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca

A nation established under God
A nation that will only win
if we stand together ~ April Nichole

From I, we, and now us. ~ Ava Leigh Stewart

The secret of poetry is cruelty. ~ Jon Anderson

As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don't know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived from what they were or from their never having been (written). ~ Fernando Pessoa

we discover through relationships
that sometimes the person
we fall for cannot comprehend
the love we provide ~ R.H. Sin

It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle. ~ Meg Rosoff

Nocturne

Midnight. The moon
has set, and the Pleiades.
The hours pass
and pass, yet still I lie alone.

Sappho ~ Sherod Santos

A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick. If, when you see the symptoms, you can tell, Your cure is quick.
A sound man knows that sickness makes him sick and before he catches it his cure is quick. ~ Lao-Tzu

...few truly understood how disheartening it was to be cut off from worlds so strange and distant they remained to us fantasies rather than distant realities, too surreal and foreign to be touched. Their minds were fixated on what they knew to be real, unable to create the atmospheres of the nebulous realms that lay just beyond our reach, just beyond the dimming horizon, our celestial limits. ~ Moonshine Noire

Felt, because it was structured poetry. There were ~ Stephen King

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love. ~ Dejan Stojanovic

Steep fall to the ground
shattering
like clay pigeons
missed
by bad shots
and unsteady hands. ~ Jessica Kristie

I love the needle poke, the red pop/
and when an arc of red drops,/
quivering and shaped like wings/
beg me to lick them off,/
quickly savoring your shoulder/
newly marked with a nearly invisible/
but indelible butterfly ~ Rachel Dacus

From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star. ~ John Milton

Just now I've taen the fit o' rhyme / My barmie noddle's working prime. ~ Robert Burns

what is
more beautiful

tears, in someone's eyes
for me
or in my eyes
for them. ~ Sanober Khan

Today

Today is the day that good things come your way,
and then bad things to suck all the fun from your play.

Today is the day that you stub every toe;
blow your nose on a sleeve thinking no one will know.

Today is the day the sun bursts from the clouds,
and sunbeams rain down as you smile and sing loud.

Today is the day that you meet someone new.
You'll tickle his fancy―he'll tickle yours too.

Today you spend beaming; you'll sigh with a frown.
You'll buoy up all happy and cry when let down.

Today is the day you will figure things out,
'cause today is called life and that's what life's about. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Read it to me."
"Seriously?" he said quietly. "You want me to read you poetry? Like saving your life ten times wasn't enough? ~ Brynn Kelly

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry ... stuff that we like. It's fun. ~ Rene Auberjonois

I belong with the trees,
the wind,
the earth beneath my feet.
I belong in the land of enchanting things.
But mostly,
I belong entwined in your kiss,
lost,
yet wild and free,
pure bliss,
like poetry. ~ Melody Lee

I used to only write poetry; now I live it. I finally matured enough to starve my hypocrisy to death. ~ Steve Maraboli

Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility. ~ Camille Paglia

Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the true poet capable of writing on the soul of childhood the harmony of love and truth, and teaching it how to produce the grandest of all poems - the poetry of a true and noble life. ~ Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

With rough hands and gentle heart, I'll seduce you. You will feel my power and surrender to desire. ~ John Mark Green

Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that. ~ Mary Oliver

When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly. ~ Daniel Woodrell

You, my reader, who see me close, wonder about my heartbeats and measure my words, you my close friend who know my eyes and the home of their prose, you, my only lover, who always move my life, my poetry's pace and rhyme,...
I can not disclose the shape of metaphors, nor what they bashfully display behind the robes of their naked source; but you can use the eyes of heart to feel what they are made of.
And if it's a tear or a smile I evoke, it means we are human, it means we care and we love.
It means we are both beautiful. (Soar) ~ Soar