Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

Popular Topics
Bible, Kids, Thing, Feeling, Kindness, Poor, Math, Knowledge, Fly, Creative, Songs, Butterfly, Snows, Memorable, Character, Drama, Name, Inspirational Life, House, Town, Gold, Happy, Night, Peace And Love, Possible, Loves, Intelligent, Pleasures Of Life, Gossip, Humble, Excellent, Air, Impossible, Religion, Faith, Acknowledge, Inspiration, Live, Value Of Life, Inspiring, Life Is Like, Lives, Technical, Nice, Art, Book, Philosophy, Glory, Kindly, Think
John Ashbery

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

Beautiful, Become, Darkness, Fruit, Increasingly
Same Author Quotes

Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to us and the way that we get knowledge from them, through television, old movies, which I watch a lot of. Lines of dialogue suddenly seem to be part of a poem.

Dream, Dreams, Mind, Old Movie, Watch

The soul is not a soul, Has no secret, is small, and it fits Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.

Attention, Life, Secret, Small, Soul

I always thought that writing poetry was in itself a political act.

Act, Poetry, Political, Writing, Writing Poetry

And we may be led, then, upward through more Powerful forms of poetry, past columns With peeling posters on them, to the country of indifference. Meanwhile if the swell diapasons, blooms Unhappily and too soon, the little people are nonetheless real.

Art, Country, Meanwhile, People, Powerful

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

Feels, Healing, Poetry, Stream, Streams, Time
Similar Quotes