Poetry Quote by Marnie Mueller — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines.”

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

“sometimes i don't know, which moment”

“I think poetry should surprise by a fine excess, and not by singularity; it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.”

“Books! tis a dull and endless strife:”

“Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.”