Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Do not awaken galaxies inside of someone if you are not even fond of stars.” — Lucy Quin Copy Share Image
A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“Read a nice poem or watch the sunrise, both are the same thing!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my… — Gabrielle Aplin Copy Share Image
I know very well what Goethe meant when he said that he never had a chagrin but he made a poem out… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The great leaders of business, industry and finance, and the great artists, poets, musicians and writers all became great because they developed… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
I suggest that what artists do in all media can be summarized as deliberately performing the operations that occur instinctively during a… — Ellen Dissanayake Copy Share Image
“As time passed, I felt especially grateful to my family and friends who continued to check in and show up. On the… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
To the extent that this world surrenders its richness and diversity, it surrenders its poetry; to the extent that it relinquishes its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Art-making is learned by immersion. You take in vocabularies of thought and feeling, grammar, diction, gesture, from the poems of others, and… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“I once saw many flowers blooming Upon my way, in indolence I scorned to pick them in my going And passed in… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I'm around a lot of people all the time and as much as I seem social, I'm really an introvert and I… — Doechii Copy Share Image
If you were going to make sculptures of them, the swivel poems would be disparate objects all attached with hinges and the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“Beauty can be born out of not only love, but also pain and other motivations.” — Following Whispers Copy Share Image
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“My house burned down But anyway, it was after The flower petals had already fallen” — Tachibana Higuchi Copy Share Image
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“My best testimonies are from the times I thought I couldn't survive.” — Tanya R. Liverman Copy Share Image
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses. — JD Era Copy Share Image
“Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it.” — Peter Davis Copy Share Image
