When the poet makes his perfect selection of a word, he is endowing the word with life. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone. — Roque Dalton Copy Share Image
Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“you take a drag and you breathe me out, and like smoke i linger in the february cold” — Erin Noel Christ Copy Share Image
One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough. — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
The poets began drifting away from churches as the jurists grew louder and more insistent. — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
“I too was pinched off from a piece of clay, I too modeled by omnipotence and flanked by things too wonderful for… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
“What is it about those unresolved endings that cause you to question every decision when you're trying to move forward?” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Our friends through cables and computer screens are as real as the light and sound waves we alter through thought.” — Belinda Subraman Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“I hit on something I believe when I wrote that I meant to be a Poet and a Poem. It may be… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“I had become wiser, I tried to find out what irony really is, and discovered that some ancient writer on poetry had… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
When I started writing poetry in my senior term of high school - I was sixteen - I felt in touch with… — Gerard Malanga Copy Share Image
If you were making poetry out of convictions - trying to convince other people - you were in the territory of rhetoric,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
As a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
“The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
“I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, too often, the white fathers… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
