Poetry Quote by W.H. Davies — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.”

“ليسَ من أجلي أنهضُ كلَّ صباحٍ بصوتٍ يتكسرُ”

“Keep your head up, he said, you are a lion, don’t forget that and neither will the sheep.”

“Into my heart an air that kills”

“I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in front of the dish, they have a crystalline texture to me, vibrant, ivory, vegetable, oily, like fruit, like algae, like agates, like olives... I stir them, I shake them, I drink them, I gulp them down, I mash them, I garnish them... I leave them in my poem like stalactites, like slivers of polished wood, like coals, like pickings from a shipwreck, gifts from the waves... Everything exists in the word.”

“Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.”