“We are the daily bread of forlorn lovers, of all who want to believe in love; they cannot live without a taste.” — Rob Bignell Copy Share Image
“In poetry magic & science must co-exist. They must creatively interact to create a new poetry of artistic transformation.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
The idea of a detached art, of poetry as a charm which exists only to distract our leisure, is a decadent idea… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“There's no poetry in me, Reginleit. No fine words." He stared down at her, his gaze seeming to consume her. "I come… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
ð¶ð¤ðð¬ Life's A Bitch And Then Ya DIE Thats Why I Get High, Cause Ya Never Know When Your Gonna Go! — Michael Copy Share Image
“The poet lives and writes at the frontier between deep internal experience and the revelations of the outer world. There is no… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I remember writing a song when I was about 15. This is the one I can remember. I know I'd been writing… — Ladyhawke Copy Share Image
The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
“What is it about words? The addictive nature of them? And when we lose them from one cherished source, we frantically search… — J.S. Holm Copy Share Image
“For God would never have created any human beings, let alone any angels, whose future evil he foreknew, if he had not… — Augustine of Hippo Copy Share Image
“God, A Poem 'I didn't exist at Creation, I didn't exist at the Flood, And I won't be around for Salvation To… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire - but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings? — Sir John Davies Copy Share Image
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit. and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day” — Virgil Copy Share Image
I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd… — Beth Kephart Copy Share Image
“Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet. But a plan and a series of unfortunate events saw those dreams dash… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
“There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Imagination makes the world and all the wonders in it. The seed of every dream unfurls as you with love begin it!” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Time is a seed we’re given. We bloom, we decay, we’re reborn— shaped by the seasons we survive. Thorn or blossom, we… — Poe Avondet Copy Share Image
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it,… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“For nine more nights they trained, after an arduous day’s march, Vaelin would try to turn a poet into a swordsman.” — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
“If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.” — Lise Arin Copy Share Image
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