National Poetry Day Quotes & Sayings

You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to. — Lyle Lovett

Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives. — Aberjhani

I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry Day,' like a 'No Smoking Day,' is just shelving the problem. Things which should by rights be every day are not best served by these things. — John Fuller

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load. — Tinie Tempah

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate. — Aberjhani

Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps. — Jim DeMint

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant. — Aberjhani

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart. — Aberjhani

A camera can get you close without the burden of commitment. It's a nifty device that way, a magical passport into people's lives with no permanent strings attached. — Nina Berman

On faith's battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation's hot rage. — Aberjhani

In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain. — Aberjhani

September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror's sting,
rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles' wings.
from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001 — Aberjhani

There are very few large and many poor feelings in everyone's life. — Albert Camus

The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery. Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer the intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years. — Aberjhani

Hopefully, you will glimpse something of your own life's journey and with Elemental's Power of Illuminated Love, possibly recognize and celebrate something you had not been able to recognize or celebrate before. — Luther E. Vann

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean. — Albert Einstein