no poetry QUOTES

1 " You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never " weeps, he knows not why." If Harris's eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is because Harris has been eating raw onions, or has put too much Worcester over his chop.If you were to stand at night by the sea-shore with Harris, and say:" Hark! do you not hear? Is it but the mermaids singing deep below the waving waters; or sad spirits, chanting dirges for white corpses held by seaweed?" Harris would take you by the arm, and say:" I know what it is, old man; you've got a chill. Now you come along with me. I know a place round the corner here, where you can get a drop of the finest Scotch whisky you ever tasted- put you right in less than no time." Harris always does know a place round the corner where you can get something brilliant in the drinking line. I believe that if you met Harris up in Paradise (supposing such a thing likely), he would immediately greet you with:" So glad you've come, old fellow; I've found a nice place round the corner here, where you can get some really first-class nectar. "

2 " There is no poetry where there are no mistakes. "

― Joy Harjo

3 " I have only to contemplate myself; man comes from nothing, passes through time, and disappears forever in the bosom of God. He is seen but for a moment wandering on the verge of two abysses, and then is lost.

If man were wholly ignorant of himself he would have no poetry in him, for one cannot describe what one does not conceive. If he saw himself clearly, his imagination would remain idle and would have nothing to add to the picture. But the nature of man is sufficiently revealed for him to know something of himself and sufficiently veiled to leave much impenetrable darkness, a darkness in which he ever gropes, forever in vain, trying to understand himself. "

― Alexis de Tocqueville , Democracy in America

4 " There’s no money in poetry, but there’s no poetry in money, either "

― Robert Graves

5 " There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money. "

― Robert Graves

6 " There is no right or wrong.
There is no weak or strong.
There is only you.
There is no poetry or song.
There is no short or long.
There is only you.
There is no beast or beauty.
There is no task or duty.
There is only you.
There is no passion or mission.
There is no wisdom or vision.
There is only you.
Nothing is there when you're not here.
So love yourself and take great care. "

― Debasish Mridha

7 " There is no poetry or song.
There is no short or long.
There is only you. "

― Debasish Mridha

8 " I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will "

9 " There's no poetry in me, Reginleit. No fine words." He stared down at her, his gaze seeming to consume her. " I come to you as a man unfinished. "

10 " Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert lived out the process in its most hideous iteration. "

― Kelsey Brickl , Wolves and Urchins: The Early Life of Inspector Javert

11 " There is no poetry without want. Desperate want. "

― Richelle E. Goodrich

12 " There's no money in poetry but then there's no poetry in money either. "

13 " There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either. "

14 " If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that. "