Poetry Metaphors, Analogies and Similes

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Poetry is adolescence fermented and thus preserved.

José Ortega Y Gasset

As forlorn as poetry written on bars of soap in prison.

Poets bicycle-pump the human heart.

These verses resembled spoonfuls of boiling oil, ladled out by a fiendish monkey from an upstairs window, upon such passers-by whom the poet had a grudge against.

As a dictator you can burn this poem but you can’t burn the love in my heart.

I adopted Twitter like Wordsworth took to the Lake District.

As bitter as the failed poet who unloads her unpublished frustrations by spending too long writing nasty reviews of other people's online writing.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you — or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Robert Frost

When a poet is about to cream a poem there is a vague feeling of going on an nocturnal hunting trip in an incredibly distant forest.

His seemingly slight poem gains weight, like an insect would gain weight on the surface of Jupiter.

Compared to those remarkable young men who composed poetry in First World War trenches our modern struggle to write is the merest itch.

If everyday comments were to the tune of the 'Star Spangled Banner', then X's poetry is Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock version.

Her conversation is like a jumbled poem, full of semi-random leaps, with no link-words or prepositions.

Poetry is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Lord Byron

No poet ever interprets nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

We make rhetoric out of quarrels with others but poetry out of quarrels with ourselves.

A poet who could enamel the inside of a raindrop.

Publishing a poem is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for an echo.

This poem is so disjointed that if you put ascending numbers down the right-hand margin it could pass for a table of contents.

Memorizing poems like a trainee spy scanning a room.

Poetry is an art of imitation, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth to speak metaphorically. A speaking picture, with this end: to teach and enlighten.

Sir Philip Sidney

Most people read poetry listening for echoes. They wade through water the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom. The echoes are the bottom.

Publishing your most personal poetry is like storing a wedding dress on the rocks while the tide is out and hoping for the best.

The poet looks at the world the same way a man looks at woman.

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.