Masahide Poetry Quotes

#1. I am going to hurt you.
You are going to hurt me.

But we will do it with practiced fingers
and passionate mouths
and I swear to god

it will be worth something. #Quote by Trista Mateer

#2. Oh, it's a beautiful day, it's an elegant, graceful day, and I'm sailing down the Strip in glamorous Las Vegas, on my motor scooter, in company with a certified illegal prostitute who loves poetry and remembers it. Sonofabitch, I'm a real writer! I used to worry about it, but no more. Life is good. #Quote by Peter S. Beagle

#3. Oh, come to me in dreams, my love!
I will not ask a dearer bliss;
Come with the starry beams, my love,
And press mine eyelids with thy kiss. #Quote by Mary Shelley

#4. i hugged myself as a child & told

Myself that everything was perfect in the petrichor

The smell of pure innocence & earthy & earthly

Innocence that stays in the clothes I only wear

on good days… #Quote by Jay Sheets

#5. Poetry is what he turns to these days, finding in its fragmentation the proper echo of the disintegrating world. #Quote by Lauren Groff

#6. I could feel the day offering itself to me,
and I wanted nothing more
than to be in the moment-but which moment?
Not that one, or that one, or that one, #Quote by Billy Collins

#7. Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens. #Quote by William Blake

#8. I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language. It does demand a certain space in order to read it, and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things. #Quote by Edward Hirsch

#9. When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it all in. I didn't know you were supposed to just stand up and tell jokes. Essentially, that's what my act became: those five elements - except I dropped the poetry. #Quote by Steve Martin

#10. I scratch down happiness, I
want my ink to do happy dances,
to careen across the pages staggering
like a drunken fellow, giddy
on moonshine or sunset. #Quote by Bryana Johnson

#11. So love me
Like a rainbow
(It's your rain due to my sun)
Love me
Between two seasons
(It's like two bodies that collide)
Love me with your lips and not with your mouth
(Your fire is the only one that touches me)
Love me
With your fingers and not your hand
(And open me like the morning
Wakes up the flower from its sorrow)
Love me
When the day is discreet
Drink my shyness like dew
And devastate my burned earth
When the day comes to decline
Love me
In this ephemeral
What is to be, what is not yet
All I have of solitary
Only speaks about your arms
Love me
In this hollow
Love me
In this space
Where we can still grow
For you are all that I embrace.
( I hear of voice
in all the noise of the world.) #Quote by Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne

#12. For until this morning I had known contemplation only in its humbler, its more ordinary forms - as discursive thinking; as a rapt absorption in poetry or painting or music, as a patient waiting upon those inspirations, without which even the prosiest writer cannot hope to accomplish anything; as occasional glimpses, in nature, of Wordsworth's 'something far more deeply interfused'; as systematic silence leading, sometimes, to hints of an 'obscure knowledge'. But now I knew contemplation at its height. #Quote by Aldous Huxley

#13. a broken mirror
tries hard to fix itself
everytime she smiles at it #Quote by Soman Gouda

#14. What is it about those unresolved endings that cause you to question every decision when you're trying to move forward? #Quote by Alfa Holden

#15. One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch
With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars
Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile
Coiled and gleaming to the end of space
And the notched spheres eating each other's rinds
To the last tooth of time, and the case closed. #Quote by John Ciardi

#16. All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears. #Quote by Lord Alfred Douglas

#17. I know
He is the only one
For I feel surrounded
By a thousand golden fairies
In the dark


He is the only one
For he touched my soul
With his words
Before my body with fingers
For he kissed my heart
Before planting a kiss on my lips #Quote by Jyoti Patel

#18. Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle. #Quote by Dylan Thomas

#19. A knowledgeable person without a curious mind is like poetry without essence. #Quote by Debasish Mridha

#20. Never May the Fruit Be Plucked"

Never, never may the fruit be plucked from the bough
And gathered into barrels.
He that would eat of love must eat it where it hangs.
Though the branches bend like reeds,
Though the ripe fruit splash in the grass or wrinkle on the tree,
He that would eat of love may bear away with him
Only what his belly can hold,
Nothing in the apron,
Nothing in the pockets.
Never, never may the fruit be gathered from the bough
And harvested in barrels.
The winter of love is a cellar of empty bins,
In an orchard soft with rot. #Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

#21. I will hold the colour gold in my hands and show you how beautiful this life can be even when your eyes have forgotten how to see the light. #Quote by Wilder Poetry

#22. One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other. #Quote by Charles Simic

#23. In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. #Quote by Eliza Griswold

#24. I love, therefore I am. #Quote by Robert Graves

#25. I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small. #Quote by Naveen Andrews

#26. As human beings, we are the only organisms that create for the sheer stupid pleasure of doing so. Whether it's laying out a garden, composing a new tune on the piano, writing a bit of poetry, manipulating a digital photo, redecorating a room, or inventing a new chili recipe - we are happiest when we are creating. #Quote by Gary Hamel

#27. We lose more than we ever gain, But this lust just never ends, So gather whatever you may today, Before time comes and takes everything away… #Quote by Piyush Rohankar

#28. It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted. #Quote by George Eliot

#29. Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. #Quote by Mark Strand

#30. And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you. #Quote by Edwin Lutyens

#31. Your poetry--it doesn't deserve to be locked away, hidden from the rest of the world. And neither do you. #Quote by Tessa Emily Hall

#32. If you have to run then learn from Bolt, if you have to fight watch Muhammad Ali`s jab and grab punches, if dunking with a basketball does it for you why not pull a Vince Carter or fly in like Michael Jordan , if science and evolution tickles your fancy have you read "Evolution" by Charles Darwin?

Well, Like Martin Luther king said " If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."

So pickup that broom , get started and stop complaining! #Quote by Victor Manan

#33. I'm an open book in a closed room. #Quote by Christina Strigas

#34. Then who is it?" said Arthur. "Well," said Ford, "if we're lucky it's just the Vogons come to throw us in to space." "And if we're unlucky?" "If we're unlucky," said Ford grimly, "the captain might be serious in his threat that he's going to read us some of his poetry first ... . #Quote by Douglas Adams

#35. Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing. #Quote by Allen Grossman

#36. Don't be afraid of your struggles, they are making you dangerously strong and wise. They are preparing you for your superpowers. Let them happen, otherwise you'll stay in the same damn place you've always been, and until you know there is so much more awesomeness in the world you'll be content in your tiny cocoon, spinning the same circles day in and day out. Your struggles are transforming you. #Quote by Melody Lee

#37. A poem is a frozen moment
melted by each reader for themselves
to flow into the here and now. #Quote by Hilde Domin

#38. I like to chant a couple of lines of poetry into the ozone layer every day or so, another caller says. #Quote by Carol Shields

#39. Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. #Quote by Adrian Mitchell

#40. To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few, though, it may be poetry. #Quote by Alexander Calder

#41. I am a more disinterested Ginsberg admirer than Eddie is. Eddie, so to speak, comes to the table with a croupier's rake. He works for the house. He skims from poetry. #Quote by Saul Bellow

#42. How to raise sons who respect women:
Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect yourself. #Quote by Alfa Holden

#43. The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. #Quote by K'naan

#44. I blessed the power which has filled my life with poetry. #Quote by Mary Butts

#45. The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You could never underestimate an audience. They had paid to get in; they had paid for drinks; they intended to get something and if you didn't give it to them they'd run you right into the ocean. #Quote by Charles Bukowski

#46. There is no limitation, to where God can take you. Think of all the possibilities of what he could give you. #Quote by Colishia S. Benjamin

#47. Of all the art forms, poetry is the most economical. It is the one which is the most secret, which requires the least physical labor, the least material, and the one which can be done between shifts, in the hospital pantry, on the subway, and on scraps of surplus paper. Over the last few years, writing a novel on tight finances, I came to appreciate the enormous differences in the material demands between poetry and prose. As we reclaim our literature, poetry has been the major voice of poor, working class, and Colored women. A room of one's own may be a necessity for writing prose, but so are reams of paper, a typewriter, and plenty of time. #Quote by Audre Lorde