“She's an old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
“Shine and shimmer my Harvest Moon, illuminate the shadows in the sky.” — A.F. Stewart Copy Share Image
“Nations conquered and true love prevails, all encompassed in a poets tale.” — R.J. Craddock Copy Share Image
Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
“Let me be clear. I applaud self love. I appreciate self value. But if you're not capable of loving another person just… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I am only a fighter, in the form of a writer, in the form of a poet, potency in the mic. — Wale Copy Share Image
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music.… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Human bodies are words, myriads of words; In the best poems reappears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay;” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“I am a more disinterested Ginsberg admirer than Eddie is. Eddie, so to speak, comes to the table with a croupier’s rake.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“What property is left to dreamers when every idea has been tamed and conquered? What about the poet who dreams of embracing… — Roshani Chokshi Copy Share Image
“Nearly all our older poetry was written and read by men to whom the distinction between poetry and rhetoric, in its modern… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My father, Eric Trethewey, is a poet, so I had one right inside the house. And on long trips, he'd tell me,… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Surely, he was all real things to us: our blue-striped unicorn, our double-lensed burning glass, our consultant genius, our portable conscience, our… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
“All around the smell of that necro-smoke, that nether-weed. And up and at the hedonist impulse, rejoice, rejoice, in the disconnect my… — Benjamin R. Smith Copy Share Image
I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all. — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I will follow you, my love, to the edge of all our days, to our very last tomorrows.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“The ocean was so deep, i thought it was all just a dream but...it became reality” — KanekiBlue 503 Copy Share Image
Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Writers must... take care of the sensibility that houses the possibility of poems. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Poets are sultans, if they had their will; For every author would his brother kill. — Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery Copy Share Image
