“The amount of her madness depends on the amount of her love. If she is crazy, frantic, insane with you, then simply… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
As we produce work that becomes pure poetry, we impact and influence our teammates, we wow our suppliers, we inspire customers and… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed,… — Corin Nemec Copy Share Image
There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier… — Multatuli Copy Share Image
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“What was she left with but ashes and darkness once the light of the flame went out? The smell of smoke lingered… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
“I've almost seen him. And Poet," she says, and I want tot say, You have seen him and you didn't want him.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“There is no valid reason for the perennial Christian preference of biography, history, and the newspaper to fiction and poetry. The former… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
After I started publishing poetry I got to teach creative writing. Eventually I was promoted and even got tenure. But then I… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
“To be a true poet is to become God. I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,'… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated… — Oscar Hijuelos Copy Share Image
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize, And in the heavens write yourglorious name. Where, whenas death shall allthe world subdue, Our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And yet this self, contains Tides, continents and stars―a myriad selves, Is small and solitary as one grass-blade Passed over by the… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
The poet who writes "free" verse is like Robinson Crusoe on his desert island: he must do all his cooking, laundry and… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I have never been in a band. But in my grand day of cabaret at Les Deux Cafes, I was doing this… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return… — Dorothea Lasky Copy Share Image
I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to… — Dirk Nowitzki Copy Share Image
You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
When you have a secret crush , you become nothing but a poet ask me I 've 18 poems secret adimeyer was… — Sikhwetha Maanda Stanley Copy Share Image
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination — David Allan Coe Copy Share Image
“He was a maniac utterly devoted to loving me, and I loved him in return, unapologetically.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
When Im all alone these words just flow out of my chest. Turn em into poems, they worship, Im the best. — J Cole Copy Share Image
Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means. — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“We are supposed to do something with these/Damn hearts of ours, and we are meant to love and be loved.” — Rob Bignell Copy Share Image
As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I never wanted my books to be mistaken for poetry or fiction books; I wanted to write reference books. But instead of… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Poetry, like dreams, will eventually break through every person's consciousness, even the tightest iconoclast's. — Sheila Bender Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this goddamn world upside down to do… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
There's the brilliant audacity of youth that poets strike upon in their earliest work sometimes that they never can hit upon again. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
