Poetry Quotes

There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.

Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.

All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.

You live you die and death not ends it.

Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.

I pressed her thigh and death smiled.

I'll never wake up in a good mood again. I'm tired of these stinky boots.

I can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space or time. I can summon the dead. I can perceive events on other worlds, in my deepest inner mind, & in the minds of others. I can I am.

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

A poem is a naked person . . . Some people say that I am a poet.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

At certain times I read a lot of poetry. My favorite poets are Shelley and Keats. Rimbaud is so identifiable. Lord Byron. I don't know. Lately if I read poems, it's like I can always hear the guitar. Even with Shakespeare's sonnets I can hear a melody because it's all broken up into timed phrases so I hear it. I always keep thinking, 'What kind of song would this be?'

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.

And every one of them words rang true and glowed like burnin' coal. Pourin' off of every page, like it was written in my soul from me to you.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.

All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once a week.