The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
“I have a potent degree of love that is so unwise in one world that it is wisdom in another.” — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. — Luc Ferrari Copy Share Image
“We, too, can divide ourselves, it’s true. / But only into flesh and a broken whisper. / Into flesh and poetry.” — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
“What does it all mean, poet? Well, Your brains beat into rhythm, you tell What we felt only; you expressed You hold… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Terence, this is stupid stuff: You eat your victuals fast enough; There can't be much amiss, 'tis clear, To see the rate… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about.… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
I wanted to learn Latin and Greek and become a poet and acquire power over language. I only understand this clearly in… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that… — Yuna Copy Share Image
I go to a lot of writers conferences and literary festivals that tend to be in college towns or cities, and I'm… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“Good and bad, two ways Of moving about your death By the grinding sea, King of your heart in the blind days,… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
My advice to aspiring poets is to find a community of other poets who are willing to read one another's work. And… — Lucia Perillo Copy Share Image
I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“But I'm a woman, and as the great poet so cleverly wrote, hell hath no fury as a woman scorned. Consider me… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
“this lightness is something created in the writing, using the linguistic tools of the poet, independent of whatever philosophical doctrine the poet… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“the great fortunes of our day have rarely been accumulated through the sale of the most meaningful items and services, such as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. —ROBERT… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over. from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton ” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“His fangs sank deep into my heart. He made me his. He possessed me like a demon and loved me like his… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“The still waters Wrap my lips, Eyes, nose and ears, A clear Cellophane I cannot crack.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“Evil is not good's absence but gravity's everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.” — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
“Suicide is career gold for the poet. Sadly, the poet isn’t around to reap any benefits from it.” — Jim Behrle Copy Share Image
“It is untrue that bravery can be measured by a lack of fear. It takes guts to tremble. It takes tremble to… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“My mind is heaven My eyes are the sun and the moon My awareness shines like the morning star.” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
