My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible thing To be so open: it is as if my heart Put on a face and walked into… — Renee Baron Copy Share Image
I write poems for myself and I write poetry that gets torn apart and becomes songs. I have a lot of respect… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or… — David Pajo Copy Share Image
We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Poetry connects you to yourself, to the self that doesn't know how to talk or negotiate. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“At breakfast!' said Louise in an awed voice. 'A man who can read poetry at breakfast would be capable of anything.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Poetry must be capable of answering the challenge of apocalytpic times, even if this means sounding apocaltypic. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world.… — Lemon Andersen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes John had recorded new compositions, or lines from his new poems. Sometimes he'd just record a busy night in The Green… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“One of the most brilliant Russian writers of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Zamyatin belongs to the tradition in Russian literature represented by… — Mirra Ginsburg Copy Share Image
“They’re close. Voices loud and fierce, Slapping faces with words. A scream … A cry … They’re getting closer. Did I lock… — Barbara Brooke Copy Share Image
It seems to me a purely lyric poet gives himself, right down to his sex, to his mood, utterly and abandonedly, whirls… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Remember Rio de Janeiro, the size of God’s hand, sardines fleshed-open at the market, the way I entered you and moved inside?… — Stacie Cassarino Copy Share Image
“The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry.… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“i want to be in love with you the same way i am in love with the moon with the light shining… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The word poetry comes from the Greek word poiesis which just means “a making”. So if you’ve made it, it’s poetry. Even… — Benedict Smith Copy Share Image
“Chains chains that hold me to the ground chains that keep me solidly bound chains that tether my heart to you chains… — Muse Copy Share Image
“Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24) — Stephan Pastis Copy Share Image
All the senses awaken and fall into harmony in poetic reverie. Poetic reverie listens to this polyphony of the senses, and the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Each time we bow to the feet of anything we find riveting, the mind rises to be surprised with new crowning diamonds… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“I found a night’s sky full of stars In your cinematic eyes And heard a symphony In your laughter.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
The wonder is that communism lasted so long. But then again, modern poetry lasted a long time, too. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
But it is the province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond life, beyond time, into eternity. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
Summary riposte To the dreary wail There's no knowing what Love is all about. Poets know a lot. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.” — China Miéville Copy Share Image
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“I know you . . . That you hold inside Vast possibilities and dreams And limitless love.” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
“People like me spend years learning the techniques of meditation. But you're a poet, and poets are born knowing the language of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We stalk the truth as poets, sensualists, a duality, limited insanity. We labor in our muse, carving alphabets of experience into our… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
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