With living colours give my verse to glow: The sad memorial of a tale of woe! — William Falconer Copy Share Image
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I got a voodoo doll every time I pen a verse: Not only do they say they feel it, but they say… — Pusha T Copy Share Image
I heard Nirvana, and discovered that songs could be like poetry, but a little bit more refined: you didn't have to have… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
“Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude? Have I endured loneliness with grace?” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
You're alone with yourself and your own feelings and that gives you deeper access to what you need to get in touch… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Just as a child is really a thing that wants to become a man, so is the poem an object of nature… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Yet surely there are men who have made their art Out of no tragic war, lovers of life, Impulsive men that look… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! — Frank Iero Copy Share Image
Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“It’s the poet we love in Caeiro, not the philosopher. What we really get from these poems is a childlike sense of… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off… — Andrea Kayne Kaufman Copy Share Image
For me personally, I love art and artists of all mediums and we've seen madness is more often than not present in… — Jeff Feuerzeig Copy Share Image
Ancient poets and sages have called the earth the mother of all things. They could hardly have chosen a more attractive name,… — Jonas Hallgrimsson Copy Share Image
“Some 2,600 years ago the ancient Greek poet Pindar wrote, “Become who you are by learning who you are.” What he meant… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Medieval Persia also produced a long and beautiful poem satirizing the claims and practices of religion. Though Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) is best… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
"Confessional poetry" is another one of those labels. It goes in and out of fashion. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Poems, novels - these things belong to the nation, to the culture, and the people. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Who knew? A fragile thing Could fall in love So easily But be left With nothing” — Jennifer West Copy Share Image
Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm counting the days until I can finally see you... — Chocolatyady Unknown Copy Share Image
The mirror is believed the way a poem is believed. It's believed because it's there. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Because we are all poets or babies in the middle of the night, struggling with being. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“What's Love, if not this folly of a wider space, taking us to an innermost Love.” — Teddy Crispin Copy Share Image
