Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial… — Harley King Copy Share Image
“හද ළදල්ලකි වර්ණ සිතුවම් පතන Heart is a leaf bud wishing for colorful drawings (Translated by Himali N. Liyanage)” — Shasika Amali Munasinghe Copy Share Image
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“I'm one that will cause people to scratch their heads in wonderment in search of their hollow hearts and look in their… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
“Love’s language starts, stops, starts; the right words flowing or clotting in the heart.” — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“If it doesn't sound insane, I would only talk about you and the only word which would come out of my mouth,… — Masood Azam Copy Share Image
“When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which we must keep to ourselves, for… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“I can sense your love, why leave me in darkness? Beguile me for your amusement, stealing my soul without kisses. You are… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“It took 3.8 billion years of triumphant evolution, remarkable collision, an unbelievable confluence made by sheer will and influence of this infinite… — nikitta gill Copy Share Image
Shonin: I have composed a poem. Kokushi: Let's hear it. Shonin: When I chant, Both Buddha and self Cease to exist. There… — Takuan Soho Copy Share Image
Starry Starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful. — Bobby Green Copy Share Image
When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In many ways, I feel like the form carries so much of the weight in a poem, obviously. But I think we… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“Mad Olia had a lot to say, and most of it was nonsensical, if it could be understood at all. Like bad… — Charlie N. Holmberg Copy Share Image
“Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.” — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not… — Martial Copy Share Image
I always wrote poems when I was a little girl, and I loved hip hop music, and I kind of just started… — Chanel West Coast Copy Share Image
“the best and worst critics I had was in the Marine Corps, If you can share poetry to a bunch of opinionated… — Vincent Breit Copy Share Image
“. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along,… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
“You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
