language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups. — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“Just because we have birds inside is, we don't have to be cages. -from Instant Recognition between Strangers” — Dean Young Copy Share Image
My mother was an actress and a director, as well. And my father was a playwright and poet. — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
One of these poems I wrote after having been here only a month. The other, I wrote this morning. In the space… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Writing a poem is a lesson in the truest empathy. And to truly have empathy is to truly know power, or at… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of… — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
I am a poet writing about pain I am a person recovering & trying to gain. I am your daughter who is… — Brittany Snyder Copy Share Image
Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“Rid of the world’s injustice, and his pain, He rests at last beneath God’s veil of blue: Taken from life when life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Our Beasts and our Thieves and our Chattels Have weight for good or for ill; But the Poor are only His image,… — Adelaide Anne Procter Copy Share Image
“Unending Love I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times... In life after life, in age after age, forever.… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“Celebrate one soul, touch one heart, light one lamp; and the whole universe moves.” — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
“And the stars blinked as they watched her carefully jealous of the way she shone.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Our necessity. Our open mouth Where bread Goes in And dreams Come out.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people. — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
“We are God’s art. We are God’s poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.” — Gregory Dickow Copy Share Image
“how is it that he's always in my thoughts. even when i am not thinking.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“The gentle downward slope gets steeper and imperceptibly becomes an abyss.” — Tomas Tranströmer Copy Share Image
