She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“For me,” she wrote, “poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose.” Throughout” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Citing Poe’s celebrity—everybody was “raven-mad about his last poem”—Briggs took him on as junior partner.” — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
“My father says most people who say they like poetry only pretend to like it.' 'I guess you like it?' 'I love… — Laird Koenig Copy Share Image
Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“TIMMS: I don't see how we can understand it. Most of the stuff poetry's about hasn't happened to us yet. HECTOR: But… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Everything around you can use. It's like your tools and your material. Whether it's in performing arts like dance, or visual arts,… — Chath Piersath Copy Share Image
The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“She's brim full of poetry - actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write...” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
After watching Guru Dutt's films, I became a huge fan of Sahir Ludhianvi's poetry and the songs of Guru Dutt's films. — Mahira Khan Copy Share Image
The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“ To Those Without Pity Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“My pond life with hydra is over; now I’m into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper..” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“NEW HAIKU One breathy vowel mists the glass warming window panes crystalled with snow Robin Glasser” — Robin Glasser Copy Share Image
Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“She’s mischief and madness waiting to catch fire and set souls ablaze; fluttering in the wind, impishly making violet love under a… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
Its so funny the way I get poetic when I am single but when I am in a relationship I suck at… — Chris Copy Share Image
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.” — Wajid Shaikh Copy Share Image
“The Life is Poem, we write when we are Young, sing along all through Life, and we reap the truth when we… — Dr.T.V.Rao MD Copy Share Image
