Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
“In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“Perhaps pondering words is also a form of seeking justice. If a monologue can invite a chorus, then perhaps it can speak… — Duo Duo Copy Share Image
From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
One's sense of honor is the only thing that does not grow old, and the last pleasure, when one is worn out… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“Is not a critic," asks Professor Stoll, "... a judge, who does not explore his own consciousness, but determines the author's meaning… — W.K. Wimsatt Copy Share Image
“... because one day, maybe one day, if I learned how to write clear enough, sing loud enough, be strong enough, I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“Will you live your very last day, The same way as you lived Your first? Will you cry, smile, laugh, and play… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Lizzie Magie was a pretty astonishing woman. She was an outspoken feminist, she had acted, she had done some performing, she had… — Mary Pilon Copy Share Image
“Your daughter is ugly. She knows loss intimately, carries whole cities in her belly. As a child, relatives wouldn’t hold her. She… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
“Later, we'll look up what was recorded in our history about yours in faraway lands. Then we'll ask ourselves, "Was Andalusia here… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides… — Phineas Fletcher Copy Share Image
My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in… — Dove Cameron Copy Share Image
Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The Love rush. Sensation only felt by the seduced mind and body under the command of it.” — J.Wolf Copy Share Image
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock.… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“You will get no poetry from me, nor songs of love. But I will love you, every day for the rest of… — Christy English Copy Share Image
I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon… — Hafez Copy Share Image
“I am the eye that beholds... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky... For I am… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.” — David J Delaney Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the icon-stasis on which a desire for aesthetic ecstasy illustrates itself endlessly.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities. — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet. — John Keble Copy Share Image
Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true… — John Milton Copy Share Image
. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
