Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“A life without poetry is a life without heart, without laughter, without crying - it's a life without feelings.” — Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann Copy Share Image
“A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Everyone's life is a poetry rhymed with sweet and bitter words, rhythmed with moments.” — Robert Ahanes Copy Share Image
The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last. — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“Life is so mysterious and illustrious that no one can touch or feel it. Without life or consciousness, a body becomes a… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“That’s the beauty of poetry,” I said. “That language is inadequate to describe life. So poetry just tries to bring up emotions.… — Victor Methos Copy Share Image
“Poet' had always sounded like a profession to me, or a talent. But the dead American [Muriel Rukeyser, The Life of Poetry]… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I feel deep gratitude for the life poetry has allowed me to live. I know the life I could have lived without… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
I don't find any direct statements in life. My poetry imitates or reproduces the way knowledge or awareness come to me, which… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“What would it profit us, after all, even from a purely practical viewpoint, if we stripped life of all poetry, all dreams,… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.… — N.H. Kleinbaum Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
“But that's a good match for the way I've always approached life. I've always believed in motion and action, in following connections… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. — Jean Marais Copy Share Image
If I had life to live over again, I would give my life to poetry, to music, to literature, and to art… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The true poetry of life: the poetry of the commonplace, of the ordinary man, of the plain, toil-worn woman, with their loves… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“The reason his father has no time for poetry is that he is afraid of the messiness of life. Poetry feeds on… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image