Poetry Quote by Jeffrey McDaniel — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“When you were sleeping on the sofa”

“If you heard your lover scream in the next room”

“I surrendered my identity in your eyes.”

“We didn’t deny the obvious,”

“I used to think love was two people sucking”

““Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth,”

“I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”

“The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.”

“I am a wildflower in your perfect bed of roses.”

“Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous palace within; war frowning from its battlements; poetry breathing throughout the fairy architecture of its halls.”

“Open wide the mind's cage-door,”