Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality. — Mark Gonzales Copy Share Image
In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there. — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
“Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.” — Atticus Copy Share Image
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“...who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Think less of yourself and more of others…and others will think more of you. ~Jason Versey” — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
“There lived a poet in the lands of gold, Wrote along poems unaffected by warmth or cold, His words spoke truth and… — Adhish Mazumder Copy Share Image
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“And at the closing of the day She loosed the chain, and down she lay; The broad stream bore her far away,… — Lord Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
“What is it you Frenchies say? Tou-che? You see, I'm a bit of a poet and you did not know it, what?” — The Scarlet Pimpernel Copy Share Image
“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.” — Karl Weierstrass Copy Share Image
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Many authors, as Hanck in particular had noted, were basically little people, spiritually shriveled, atrophied and care-worn personalities. Petty. Vulnerable and frightened.… — Klas Ostergren Copy Share Image
“In our era, it is because poetry is no longer practiced that some people can rediscover it in argot, in which the… — Alice Becker-Ho Copy Share Image
“How they are all about, these gentlemen In chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced, Like night around their order's star and gem And… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“But in her web she still delights To weave the mirror’s magic sights, For often thro’ the silent nights A funeral, with… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text,… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“Humankind’s pathetic life supplies the poetry of our existence. Just as without tragedy comedy would lose its magical qualities, life without pain… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“She had the power to change the world but she couldn't save the one she loved.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“How can poetry be something we study, but also something that makes us cry?” — Rhian Williams Copy Share Image
“Every verse in the scrolls of your days sings to us of hope and wonder.” — Zoe Klein Copy Share Image
Feeling like Rap God when you sing a fast verse from a song successfully. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our poets are men of talents who sing, and not the children of music. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.” — Brandon Villasenor Copy Share Image
Poetry is an art spoken, as if sung, in relation to other human beings. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
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