Democracy is not always chapter and verse, written out in advance. — Jane O'Meara Sanders Copy Share Image
“Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance. M. C. RICHARDS” — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“Poetry rescues things by reconciling matter and spirit in the metaphor.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“Seal the borders of my body to pain, seal my eyes, mouth, belly to any hunger not my own. I rename myself… — Shailja Patel Copy Share Image
At McCormick Theological Seminary I had to take Hebrew, so I began to read prophetic poetry, and suddenly it became the life… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My mother is a poem that I could never write for she deserves multitudes; all of praise.” — Sinovuyo Nkonki Copy Share Image
“Every day we hear a little melody,reading a beautiful poem, see a fine painting and,If possible, say the words.” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
“In a serener Bright, In a more golden light I see Each little doubt and fear, Each little discord here Removed.” — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“When I am dead, even then, I will still love you, I will wait in these poems, When I am dead, even… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I came from a home full of the sounds of my parents performing poems or playing recordings of Robert Graves, WB Yeats… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
“New York! I say New York, let black blood flow into your blood. Let it wash the rust from your steel joints,… — Léopold Sédar Senghor Copy Share Image
“I want that burn of the sky type of thing. That catching stars, and cutting clouds and sipping on sunsets type of… — Ariana Copy Share Image
“from Hum, Hum Oh the house of denial has thick walls and very small windows and whoever lives there, little by little,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
It is at once by way of poetry and through poetry, as with music, that the soul glimpses splendors from beyond the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“And then all that has divided us will merge And then compassion will be wedded to power And then softness will come… — Judy Chicago Copy Share Image
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
For instance, I may bring a certain feminist perspective to my songwriting, because that's how I see life. I'm interested in art,… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
“I wish I had eyes that changed colors from blue to gray, and then after I cried, to all the colors of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
