“Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
My friend Akshay Upadhyay and I used to write poetry and read out to each other. — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
“If the sun rolled back like an eye, it would see the mind of God.” — Cecilia Llompart Copy Share Image
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
As a schoolboy, poetry seemed defined by preciousness. It was all very rarefied. — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Why our poet chose to give his 1958 hurricane a little-used Spanish name sometimes given to parrots) instead of Linda or Lois,… — Nabokov Vladimir Copy Share Image
The Hindi film that I recommend is 'Ijaazat.' It is my most favourite film; it is a poetry in itself, and Gulzar… — Mithila Palkar Copy Share Image
“Poetry, philosophy, and physics all teach us that we don’t experience time in equal increments.” — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
A poet is someone Who can pour Light into a spoon, Then raise it To nourish Your beautiful parched, holy mouth. — Hafez Copy Share Image
“Literary' feelings are responses to poems, not just states of emotion which occur in their presence.” — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was quite happy in Arkhangelsk.Subsequently, I was sent to a village. I liked it in its own way because it sounded… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Love is prayerfulness groping toward godliness. Love is poetry born out of the sheer joy of being. Love is song, dance, celebration:… — Osho Copy Share Image
“I am obnoxious to each carping tongue Who says my hand a needle better fits; A Poets pen all scorn I should… — Susan L. Rattiner Copy Share Image
“Your little sister Has tossed her Untied hair forward Like a living veil, Like a fragrant hedge, And peers, with such eyes!… — Hugo von Hoffmannstahl Copy Share Image
And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin'… — Dolly Parton Copy Share Image
Feelings, she learned, were hard to fight. She treasured his smiles and compliments and tried not to dwell on the fact that… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
Sometimes I just go into Shakespearean sonnets and end it with a nice little couplet. — Brook Lopez Copy Share Image
Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers. — Horace Copy Share Image
“At the end of the night awaits the white morning: showered in sunlight.” — Gerrit Achterberg Copy Share Image
I had a million jobs before I managed to make a living out of poetry. — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
“The hardest step we all must take is blindly trust in who we are.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“You and I will be lost and found a thousand times along this cobbled road of us.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
I am a patriot, but I must say that English poetry is the richest in the world. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I love poetry, read it a lot, but make no claim to being able to write it. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
