Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry. — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
If you like my poems let them walk in the evening, a little behind you — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“The moon is my fear. The sun is my heart afire. The stars, my love songs.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain, or break… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words… — Elizabeth Hand Copy Share Image
The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
A rapper is not known by his face.its his lyrical ability,how he throws words on beat and his poetry which makes him… — SARkARR Copy Share Image
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook… — Brian Patten Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the simpler poetry is, the more difficult it becomes for a critic to discuss intelligently. Trained to explicate, the critic often… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
'Dead Poets Society' was a very influential film on me and so talking about that movie with him, he just inspired me… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“You have to believe that your voice can mean something. You have to believe that what you do matters. And you have… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping. — Shura Copy Share Image
Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image