“nobody hαs ever meαsured, not even poets, how much the heαrt cαn hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The poet is much more the one who inspires,than the one who is inspired.” — Paul Eluard Copy Share Image
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“Annant is Pickwick paperless, the hunter of wisdom and due to Lovelace heart, a budding poet-ass.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
The most ignorant person, at a reasonable charge, and with a little bodily labour, might write books in philosophy, poetry, politics, laws,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
For me, poetry has a strong link to my filmmaking. My films learn from my poetry. In poetry, you're free. You start… — Jørgen Leth Copy Share Image
A novel takes place over time. It's a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
“He who sees a play that is regular, and answerable to the rules of poetry, is pleased with the comic part, informed… — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“The greatest mathematics has the simplicity and inevitableness of supreme poetry and music, standing on the borderland of all that is wonderful… — Robert Turnbull Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in the world which an artist cannot recreate into something poetic, ennobling. And why do we read these things?… — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
Peter Conners stunning prose poems are packed with keen sensitivity, dreaminess, and wit. I love his time travels, the vibrant layering of… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“It is hard to stop loving the ocean, even after it has left you gasping.” — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile. — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
A cook is creative, marrying ingredients in the way a poet marries words. — Roger Verge Copy Share Image
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
