Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
“Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a separate language, or more specifically, a language within a language.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“moonlight the falsest the most languid the most petit-bourgeois strikes me I like it” — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
If every individual starts listening to poetry, watch plays, and see paintings, they'll become a better human. — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“That is what all the poets do: they talk to themselves outloud and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
“It may have been just another night to all the people I saw rushing past my left and my right... but my… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Nigerian poet Ijeoma Umebinyuo says, “You must let the pain visit. You must allow it to teach you. You must not allow… — Sarah M. Nannen Copy Share Image
Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known...… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
It is quite clear that beauty does depend on one's culture and upbringing for certain kinds of beauty, pictures, literature, poetry and… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Kisses like poetry, like writing sonnets, quatrains, cinquains free verse desire Kisses like ballads, your tongue on the roof of my mouth.… — Azra T Copy Share Image
“Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my… — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“They've written songs about this feeling, and poems and books, and movies. All of them telling us to live each moment like… — Dan Skinner Copy Share Image
Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many… — John Updike Copy Share Image
It is difficult to disturb the common usage of Korean that is bent to the perspective of a male-oriented society. Korean society… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“In the Christmas season of 1822, Clement Clarke Moore, a prosperous New York scholar and landowner, wrote a series of verses in… — Gerry Bowler Copy Share Image
“He who approaches the temple of the Muses without inspiration, in the belief that craftsmanship alone suffices, will remain a bungler and… — Plato Copy Share Image
“There is a reason that the world is not black and white, for chaos demands color.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“I see the life with your sight, O" the love; you're my light.” — Debasish Mridha M.D Copy Share Image
if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems. — Antonio Gala Copy Share Image
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
“It takes a strong man to be with a woman full of fire and stars and all of October.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world. — Gerhart Hauptmann Copy Share Image
I don't think poetry has a readership anywhere, really, that's that big. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
