“Be gentle with yourself while healing. And be prepared for great strength.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank. — Steven T. Katz Copy Share Image
I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
“You're too sane for a lunatic girl like me. You live in reality, while I tango in the jungle of my imagination… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I can't quite see the point of poems like "Wittgenstein Goes for a Walk with A Hawk in Sherwood Forest." I know… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“The historian is an indissoluble part of his history, as the poet is of his poem, as the shadowy biographer is of… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
The success of the poem is determined not by how much the poet felt in writing it, but by how much the… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“...you are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
I think what we lack isn't science, but poetry that reveals what the heart is ready to recognize — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Poetry for Broken Hearts Walking alone is not difficult... But after having walked a mile with someone Coming back alone is more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next,… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“While working in California, I met William Valentiner and Edgar Richardson of the Detroit Institute of Arts. I mentioned a desire which… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
XVII Lady, i will touch you with my mind. Touch you and touch and touch until you give me suddenly a smile,shyly… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem “Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“They smell your breath Lest you have said: I love you, They smell your heart: These are strange times, my dear. From… — Ahmad Shamlu Copy Share Image
“The long poem of walking manipulates spatial organizations, no matter how panoptic they may be: it is neither foreign to them (it… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
Poets have to be sensitive to their audience, but it does not mean that they censor themselves. I realise my audience is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She knew she was really sad when she stopped loving the things she loved.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“we live so loudly that if our lives / become history it will be written in bold” — Reese Lieberman Copy Share Image
There is room neither for the poet nor for the contemplator in an egalitarian world. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
“...for life's not a paragraph/ and death, i think, is no parenthesis.” — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Sewn together patterns, like many clashing moods, She wears what No others dare” — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
“...have I told you? - your eyes are a dark poem of dancing snow at midnight ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
