Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices… — Nina Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Our earliest poets were shamans. Today, as in the earliest times, true shamans are poets of consciousness who know the power of… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
“Danger does not intimidate me. What frightens me most is feeling dead, while having a pulse.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I believe in poetry as a way of surviving the emotional chaos, spiritual confusions, and traumatic events that come with being alive. — Gregory Orr 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
The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
You can see a clock, but you can't see the time. You can see my face, but you can't see my mind.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
“Poetic Terrorism WEIRD DANCING IN ALL-NIGHT computer-banking lobbies. Unauthorized pyrotechnic displays. Land-art, earth-works as bizarre alien artifacts strewn in State Parks. Burglarize… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
“Plato said: 'He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration in the belief that craftmanship alone suffices, will remain a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have, but I must say I cannot sympathise… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse.… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Linda loves an argument, and I like to engage, too, but she knows that I'm a poet, so I will engage forever.… — Donovan Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a tool for writers to create literature in different forms of messages.” — Vanessa M. Chattman Copy Share Image
We have always made mistakes, but the greatest mistakes are the poems we have written. — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
“leave me a smile just warm enough... to spend a million golden afternoons in.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“"It's not for me - religion. It seems like a redundancy for a poet.” — May Swenson Copy Share Image
I like the machinery of poems, especially when they have human warmth. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone! — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Love is the strange attractor, the allurement that holds the Uni-verse together. — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image