Winnipeg Poem

Always be a poet, even in prose. - Charles Baudelaire

Love is the poetry of the senses. - Honore de Balzac

The poetry of earth is never dead. - John Keats

A poem begins with a lump in the throat. - Robert Frost

You can't write poetry on the computer. - Quentin Tarantino

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. - Oscar Wilde

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

A poet can survive everything but a misprint. - Oscar Wilde

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx. - Laini Taylor

Pure mathematics is the poetry of logical ideas. - Albert Einstein

Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get. - Mark Twain

An end is in sight to the severe weather shortage. - Ian Macaskill

I'd rather be a great bad poet than a good bad poet. - Ogden Nash

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

There is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather. - Christina Rossetti

The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. - Walt Whitman

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. - Robert Frost

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold. - Zelda Fitzgerald

It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain

Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. - Aristotle

Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people. - Adrian Mitchell

There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money, either. - Robert Graves

Books of poetry by young writers are usually promissory notes that are never met. - Oscar Wilde

Treat your audience like poets and geniuses, and that's how they'll behave. - Del Close

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action. - Henry Miller

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope. - Oscar Wilde

The writing of more than 75 poems in any fiscal year should be punishable by a fine of $500. - Ed Sanders

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. - Steven Wright

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. - W H Auden

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence. - William A. Ward

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. - Oscar Wilde

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. - Lionel Trilling

My favourite poem is the one that starts, "Thirty days hath September" because it actually tells you something. - Groucho Marx

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. - William Butler Yeats

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. - Robert Frost

They invented the three-day bank holiday weekend because you can't lump all the bad weather into just Saturday and Sunday. - Unknown

Don't knock the weather. Nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. - Kin Hubbard

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. - C S Lewis

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

When my wife says she'll be ready in 5 minutes, I know I have just enough time to fly to space and write a poem on the moon before we go. - Mike Vanatta