“bila tanganku tak mampu lagi menyentuhmu, maka biarlah doa menggantikannya” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can feel greatness in the ring. You can get two guys that gel together and it's just like poetry or a… — Ricky Steamboat Copy Share Image
“level, they use this as a poor excuse to disregard the rules of the sharia. Drinking, dancing, music, poetry, and painting” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
“Gardens are poems Where you stroll with your hands in your pockets. (Les jardins sont des poemes Ou l'on se promene les… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“You fell because you were looking to fall, You fell because you’re kind. Your humans called you Daydreamer girl, but you fell… — F.K. Preston Copy Share Image
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Watch carefully the magic that occurs when you give a person enough comfort to just be themselves.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I… — George Murray Copy Share Image
“There is no time, only I am. There is no society, only I am. There is no law, only I am. There… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Christopher loved her with the passion of youth, of imagination, of poetry, of all the fresh beginnings of wonder and worship that… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“...The old bottles lay dreaming of new wine. I picked up my breast, which had gone out. By other lights I go… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“Poetry that tames language into tight structures and yet manages to move us comes off as a feat, paralleling ballet or athletic… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“Every poet creates their own universe that looks more beautiful than reality.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it --from "Elm", written 19 April 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay. — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
“Those who lead us to our sacred selves walk not before us, but beside.” — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there. — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality. — Mark Gonzales Copy Share Image