“Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky 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
“True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
Death! It is rest to the aged, it is oblivion to the atheist, it is immortality to the poet! — Ouida Copy Share Image
“Then, after picking up his papers, Pierre began: “A beautiful woman can be the downfall of a gentleman . . . but… — Ted Anthony Roberts Copy Share Image
Language becomes a prison house only poets can escape...if we do not reject any strict distinctions between ordinary usage and figures of… — Arthur Quinn Copy Share Image
Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
I don't do much of anything consciously in writing - in poetry writing, anyway, prose usually being a different matter, of course. — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
“He had the look of a sensitive bard, but there was no poetry to his words; he spoke awkwardly, uncertainly, as if… — N.M. Lombardi Copy Share Image
“The center of a poem must be a nucleus its words orbit around following the poet's laws of writing.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
“Drinking the energy of the universe Breathing along with the Cosmos With each breath I am reborn Into a brand new existence.” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists ourselves...The art of reading poetry is an authentic training… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“I find solace in a serenade the words of a stranger bringing comfort through the lines of a song, The pain intertwined… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
I've been working on a collection of prose vignettes about girls I've had crushes on, from the age of six to the… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the… — Na'ama Yehuda Copy Share Image
I now wish that I had spent somewhat more of my life with verse. This is not because I fear having missed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You may be guided by the unending effort of poets and artists, biologists and psychiatrists to describe that irreplaceable and still mysterious… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“Go get your gun because God won't show. He sent a poet instead. The Don Quixote of the ICU. Quite impressive for… — Keith Buckley Copy Share Image
“Time passes too fast. Like a hummingbird flying by, it’s just a blur to my eyes.” — Amanda Leigh Copy Share Image
The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
“Look I'm not the God of Poetry or Good Descriptions, okay? - Hades” — Kaitlin Bevis Copy Share Image
“She left my world spinning like windmills on the plains of la Mancha.” — Stephen Brooke Copy Share Image
“Anything you want very badly is located outside of your comfort zone.” — Tracey L. Moore Copy Share Image
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
A gay poet is just one of the very many poet gays of yesterday, today and tomorrow. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
“She is a poem. She is an old one, a new one, one waiting to be written. She is.” — N'Zuri Za Austin Copy Share Image
