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

“Reminiscing in the drizzle of Portland, I notice the ring that’s landed on your finger, a massive”

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

“There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.”

“The Quiet World”

“I surrendered my identity in your eyes.”

“We didn’t deny the obvious,”

“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.”

“Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.”

“We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.”

“I bring you with reverent hands”

“She was a Phantom of delight”

“I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when looked at in a typically scientific way. I wouldn't be surprised if poetry--poetry in the broadest sense, in the sense of a world filled with metaphor, rhyme, and recurring patterns, shapes, and designs--is how the world works. The world isn't logical, it's a song.”