Quotes about Poetry

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

Both stupid and lacking in foresight those poets of old who wrote songs for revels and dinners and banquets - pleasant sounds for men living at ease; but none of them all has discovered how to put to and end with their singing or musical instrument - grief, bitter grief from which death and disaster cheat the hopes of a house.

Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.

Did you read the part that says, 'Your hair is like a flock of goats'? How romantic is that? Or that other line, 'Your neck is like the tower of David.' Oh, now, that sounds real attractive! If some guy tried those lines on me, I'm sure I'd fall instantly in love with him.

a quotation that had been her favorite, written by the poet she most admired. Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality. Unbeknownst to Jet, Franny had added another line beneath her sister's name. Beloved by all.

A girl without freckles is like a night without stars.

I sing of a maidenThat is makeless;King of all kingsTo her son she ches.

Everyone who drinks is not a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

David the son of Jesse… the sweet psalmist of Israel.

The holly and the ivy,When they are both full grown,Of all the trees that are in the wood,The holly bears the crown:The rising of the sunAnd the running of the deer,The playing of the merry organ,Sweet singing in the choir.

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.