I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“Beauty can be born out of not only love, but also pain and other motivations.” — Following Whispers Copy Share Image
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“My best testimonies are from the times I thought I couldn't survive.” — Tanya R. Liverman Copy Share Image
I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses. — JD Era Copy Share Image
I don't see poetry as something that has to do with too much emotion anyway. It has to do with language. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“I will complain, yet praise; I will bewail, approve: And all my sowre-sweet dayes I will lament, and love.” — George Herbert Copy Share Image
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To see the Persia of poets and painters, hiding in plain sight behind the much-maligned Iran of our newspaper headlines, would be… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“It is not our job to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves Like the trees, and be born again, Drawing… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant… — Cesare Lombroso Copy Share Image
Before Plato could describe love, the loved one had to be invented. We would never love anybody if we could see past… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She's an irritating, opinionated woman, a type Buddy can't stand. I don't think he could see her for what she is. A… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
“a poem called “The Night Before Doom”: “ ’Twas the night before Doom, / and all through the house, / I had… — David Kushner Copy Share Image
“She got inside me with her story. I could feel her flowing in me and far, faraway I related in parallel. Her… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“When you write poetry honestly, and when you read it honestly, then you become an individual and build up a defense against… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“I am a Dancer; rehearsing the steps of our unheard song with utmost perfection. Never will you tap your feet consciously. I… — Ranjani Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it.” — Peter Davis Copy Share Image
“Not words. nor laughter. but rather someone who will fall in love with your silence.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“bila tanganku tak mampu lagi menyentuhmu, maka biarlah doa menggantikannya” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
