But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves? — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I wanted to be the best, whether it was sports or poetry. — Myles Garrett Copy Share Image
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“my happy is a high fever that will break, my happy is as hollow as a pin-pricked egg” — Sabrina Benaim Copy Share Image
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry. — John Hegley Copy Share Image
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
“Watch me go. Watch me. Because you said i couldn't. Because you thought I wouldn't. Go on, cry now. Cry.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“there is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“There’s a beautiful poem at the beginning of a collection of books we call the Bible. In that poem, it is written:… — Cole Ryan Copy Share Image
For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“A good author is he who isn’t afraid to speak his mind; he who dictates the art of the verse. A scribbler… — Leila Samarrai Copy Share Image
Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“Poets can't march in protest or do that sort of thing. I feel that's against the rules, and pointless. If mankind wants… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.” — Allen Grossman Copy Share Image
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“If the poems please you more than my lips, I will never give you another kiss.” — Juan Ramón Jiménez Copy Share Image
“lean in to kiss me in all the places where the ache is the most special.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“The truth is the object of our lust But the light is still so very dim…” — Andrea Barbosa Copy Share Image
A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there. — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
