Woman Reading Poetry from a Book

On the edge of townI should have thought of what I was thinking ofOh, the time has come for me to start believingI should have known betterYou're just a dreamerI only had yourself to blameI only had enoughThat someone elseCould have savedI only had enoughDon't waste no more timeYou'll be the happy manLoving all the timeI should have thought of what I was thinking ofI should have talked to myselfLetting it endLetting it start againLetting it goI should have realizedI should have told myselfYou're not going to save meFor the love of TV(No, no, no, noJust the other day)

Notable Quotes About Poetry

Street poetry

“He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.” — George Sand, from The Devil's Pool. 

“Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.” — Allen Ginsberg, from Ginsberg, A Biography.

“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.” — Carl Sandburg, from The Atlantic, March 1923. 

“Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley, from A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays.