“In a real poem a sound does not swallow a letter, but a letter swallows a sound.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The poem is a capsule where we wrap up our punishable secrets. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dance, Live, Sing, Cry, Love, Travel and Love again, until the day you have to stop” — Vanessa Vanney Thompson Copy Share Image
Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music. — Confucius Copy Share Image
But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Our digestions, going sacredly and silently right, that is the foundation of all poetry. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If I had a girlfriend I'd sing to her & read her poetry, take her on dates, make her feel special. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Sipping tea with glee beneath a gooseberry tree. I wish Alice were here. Oh, my dear, do not fear, she will be.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko Copy Share Image
We can look forward to four more years of wonderful, inspirational speeches full of wit, poetry, music, love and affection, plus more… — David Brinkley Copy Share Image
“I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst compliment I've ever gotten.” — Rosa Sophia Copy Share Image
From the beginning I felt that I didn't ever want to leave the impression that the process of writing a poem is… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Just as a poet often has license from the rules of grammar and pronunciation, we should like to ask for 'physicists' license… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Creed by Abigail Carroll, p.196-197 I believe in the life of the word, the diplomacy of food. I believe in salt-thick ancient… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
My colleagues knew I was writing poems. I never hid it from them. I don't think they ever thought I was cheating… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
The poet is never inspired, because he is the master of that which appears to others as inspiration. He does not wait… — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
You have made me a better person by loving me for who I am. Happy anniversary, An Anniversary message by poem, Your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Galway Kinnell came out with that wonderful big, breathy, hollow voice of his and read, for the first time in public, "The… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“There's poetry in everything, everything is music; just listen and you will hear it.” — Noam Shpancer Copy Share Image
A lot of poems are boring and impenetrable. Mine are not. They're really simple. — Tim Key Copy Share Image
“A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.” — Morgan Dragonwillow Copy Share Image
“The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, & Issa, edited by Robert Hass.” — Michael Wallace Copy Share Image
Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. — Janine Turner Copy Share Image
