“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
They who in folly or mere greed Enslaved religion, markets, laws, Borrow our language now and bid Us to speak up in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If you find yourself still clinging to every feeling you thought was lost forever... Maybe, just maybe, it's the only place you… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The poet is someone, I think, who's interested in registering experience immediately or giving you the sense of immediacy and directness. — Amiri Baraka Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Such perfect incompleteness, suggestion and ambiguity are among the most valuable devices of the skilled poet, means by which the poem opens… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“Touch was absolutely out of the question. I couldn’t stop sweating. My heart, a butterfly pinned to a glacier. Empires fell inside… — Jeremy Radin Copy Share Image
Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
“I feel too much, I leave too much unsaid, I think too much, I chew on words unspoken, jagged edges carve me… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
I'm only the instrument through which one particular art is expressed. Poetry flows through me but it originates in the wellspring of… — Morgan Llywelyn Copy Share Image
“A pause. Then she said: "Tell me, Noah, what do you remember most from the summer we spent together?" "All of it."… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Find a love that listens even when you’re not saying anything, that knows the infinite ways you express yourself in silence, and… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
“Beloved in whose body I rest, What will your dream be like when I have sought you without finding you? Oh, my… — Eunice Odio Copy Share Image
“There were no rules when it came to writing, he said. Take a close look at the lives of poets and novelists,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with… — Odysseas Elytis Copy Share Image
“It is time I came back to my real life After this voyage to an island with no name, Where I lay… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices.” — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into… — Dana Scott Copy Share Image
I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems. — Arnold Adoff Copy Share Image
“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. — Samuel Prout Copy Share Image
“Many would have disliked to live, if possessed of the peculiar features of Arthur Jermyn, but he had been a poet and… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Friends are like poems, you may never fully understand them, but you will always love them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“O my Homunculus, I am ill. I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling. From the poem "Cut", 24 October 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“My mind feels in philosophical form. My heart thinks in poetic verse. My soul loses everything in translation.” — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags. — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The headmaster asked to read one of my poems at some celebration or other when I was about 10. When I look… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Books connect us readers to what we cannot see but imagine, an intangible sort of wonder and magic.” — Stephanie Morales Copy Share Image
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
