Poetry Quotes

Fuck Poetry

(Love's Philosophy) "See the mountains

Kiss high heaven and the waves clasp one another"

(Love's Philosophy) "The fountains mingle

With the rivers and the rivers with the ocean"

(Love's Philosophy) "Why not

I with thine?"

(Love's Philosophy) "What are all

these kisses worth if thou kiss not me?"

(Love's Philosophy) "The winds

of heaven mix for ever with a sweet emotion"

(Love's Philosophy) "No sister-flower

Would be forgiven if it disdain'd its brother"

(Love's Philiosophy) "And the sunlight

Clasps the Earth, and the moonbeams kiss the sea"

(Porphyria's Lover) "She put my arm

about her waist, and made her smooth white shoulder bare, and all her yellow hair displaced"

(Porphyria's Lover) "The sullen

wind was soon awake, it tore the elm-tops down for spite"

(Porphyria's Lover) "one long string

i wound three times her little throat around, and strangled her. No pain felt she"

(Porphyria's lover) "Happy and proud;

at last I knew Porphyria worshipped me"

(Porphyria's Lover) "and all night

Long we have not stirred, and yet God has not said a word"

(Porphyria's Lover) "She shut the cold

out and the storm, and kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up, and all the cottage warm"

(Sonnet 29) "I

think of thee!"

(Sonnet 29) "Put out

Broad leaves, and soon there's nought to see except the straggling green which hides the wood"

(Sonnet 29) "Yet, O

my palm-tree, be it understood"

(Sonnet 29) "I will not

have my thoughts instead of thee who art dearer, better!"

(Sonnet 29) "Rather, instantly

renew they presence; as a strong tree should"

(Sonnet 29) "Rustle thy boughs

and set thy trunk all bare, and let these bands or greenery which insphere thee drop heavily down"

(Sonnet 29) "burst,

Shattered, everywhere!"

(Sonnet 29) "Because, in this

Deep joy to see and hear thee and breathe within thy shadow a new air, I do not think of thee - I am too near thee"

(Letters from Yorkshire) "In February

digging his garden, planting potatoes"

(Letters from Yorkshire) "He saw

the first lapwings return and came indoors to write to me, his knuckles singing"

(Letters from Yorkshire) "as they

reddened in the warmth"

(Letters from Yorkshire) "You out there…

seeing the seasons turning, me with my heartful of headlines feeding words onto a blank screen"

(Letters from Yorkshire) "Is your life

more real because you dig and sow?"

(Letters from Yorkshire) "Still, it's you

Who sends me word of that other world"

(Letters from Yorkshire) "pouring

air and light into an envelope"

(Letters from Yorkshire) "our souls

Tap out messages across the icy miles"

(Eden Rock) "They are waiting

for me somewhere beyond Eden Rock"

(Eden Rock) "My father,

twenty five, in the same suit of Genuine Irish Tweed"

(Eden Rock) "My mother,

Twenty three, in a sprigged dress… her hair, the colour of wheat, takes on the light"

(Eden Rock) "The sky

whitens as if lit by three suns"

(Eden Rock) "My father (sp…)

spins/a stone along the water."

(Eden Rock) "Leisurely,/

they beckon to me from the other bank"

(Eden Rock) "I hear them

call "See where the stream path is! Crossing is not as hard as you might think"

(Eden Rock) "I had not

Thought that it would be like this"