As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
A critic must accept what is best in a poet, and thus become his best encourager. — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough. — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“We didn't just bump into each other or randomly meet. It was more like a soul collision, meant to be.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
A poet is the creator of the nation around him, he gives them a world to see and has their souls in… — Johann Gottfried Herder Copy Share Image
I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems,… — PJ Harvey Copy Share Image
A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles? What if dragons felt… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Every now and then, I need a little spark of inspiration. It could be from reading (a novel, poetry, story, news article,… — Sandra Proto Copy Share Image
The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been… — James Payn Copy Share Image
I got about half the time I wanted to write poetry. I got about half the time I needed to be a… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“3:29:50 pm what is it that you love about him is it the way he lets you down incapable of lifting you… — R.H. Sin Copy Share Image
“I wear my loneliness like a taffeta dress riding up my thigh, and you cannot help but want me. You think it's… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“I hear they make greeting cards now to thank your therapist... for NOTHING” — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
“Daisy, simple and discreet flower, That earned the heart of this poet.” — Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco Copy Share Image
“Birds shouldn't be able to find tears They are the definition of freedom” — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“I lock my door upon myself - a poet had said. I turn my key and there's -- happiness.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide. — Johnny Tillotson Copy Share Image
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
“You are that one breath. that puts all the remaining breaths. back into my body.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
