“..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.” — Christina Westover 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
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
“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them… — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
“Look, it's those flowers from that boring poem that you like,’ Ancel announced proudly. He stood in front of the spray of… — C.S. Pacat Copy Share Image
“The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
How do you define a poet? It's very simple. Anyone declaring that he is a poet, is a poet. — Billy Cannon Copy Share Image
Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“The way you walked away The way you stopped and waited All that time What was in your heart? A laugh? A… — Shasika Amali Munasinghe Copy Share Image
“I Like The Way That when you Tilt Poems On their side They Look like Miniature Cities From A long way Away.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
When a poet digs himself into a hole, he doesn't climb out. He digs deeper, enjoys the scenery, and comes out the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn’t touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Come play with my wild - I need my hair pulled, my lips kissed, your tender caress. I need your savage, I… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“At the end of the day I went to this place where your memories left footsteps on my skin and the breath… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“I tasted danger on his lips and became an addict. A slave to adrenaline and irrational behaviour. We lived recklessly in a… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
It's after dark that I feel most inspired, I'm a nocturnal creature. I'll write poetry or streams of consciousness, play instruments, or… — Arlo Parks Copy Share Image
“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“We weep, tears of blood, we weep, In despair, crying, we weep; the sun forever has stolen the light from his eyes.… — Jane Bierhorst 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
“There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“She tells everyone she's taken. Yet her heart whispers: he's taking too long.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
