The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“Many Castles On My Travels i have been A guest in Many castles Yet the Monument Which i Find Divine Is the… — Silent Lotus Copy Share Image
Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“She was mined for the children in her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single… — Robert Wrigley Copy Share Image
“I hope you find someone who holds you like you're the greatest piece of art God's ever put in their hands.” — N.M.Sanchez Copy Share Image
Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position.… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“The storm of revolution,’ as Andre Chenier said, ‘blows out the torch of poetry.’ It is not for some little time that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our… — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
“This recognition of the truth we get in the artist’s work comes to us as a revelation of new truth. I want… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves,… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“So Tristram looked on Iseult face to face and knew not, and she knew not. The last time -- The last that… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets. — Plato Copy Share Image
They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to — John Trudell Copy Share Image
“Be careful how you say your own mother’s name; How you articulate your blood.” — Nkateko Masinga Copy Share Image
“He was in the frame of mind when a weaker man would have started writing poetry.” — P.G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“I don't need poetry, prema. I just need to get near enough to touch you.” — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“People need each other for solving the problem of what is inside.” — Matvei Yankelevich Copy Share Image
Never write a poem about anything that ought to have a poem written about it. — Richard Hugo Copy Share Image
All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. — Zona Gale Copy Share Image
“I’m not aspiring to be someone else – If I’m me for the rest of my life then so be it” — Terry Lander Copy Share Image
“The scars of my heart wore ivory and the lines on my mind told crimson lies.” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
