Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs". — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
A poem doesn’t come out and tell you what it has to say. It circles back on itself, eating its own tail… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
“Stay away from the underground lake I implore, The Siren will see you are heard of no more.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
A banal poem is never more than a banal poem. A banal or trite lyric, however, can be - with the right… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to go to Oberlin and wanted the liberal arts. Obviously I really get intense… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
In grad school, a friend and I gave ourselves the task of writing poems in the voice of Beyoncé and Lady Gaga… — Morgan Parker Copy Share Image
Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“Far over the misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away ere break of day To seek the… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Maybe lurking in my unconscious was the idea that when someone's collected poems are published it means that the poet is dead.… — Ron Padgett Copy Share Image
[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona. — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
“Making Cocoa For Kingsley Amis It was a dream I had last week And some kind of record seemed vital. I knew… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
I really love poetry. I'm a big E.E. Cummings fan and a big Walt Whitman fan, and I have a big book… — Mae Whitman Copy Share Image
Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And what I've found over time is that for me to write a poem that I think is worthy that I can… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees,… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
There's a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that's a bit blurred in my mind. — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
Poetry is a very complex art… It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Good poetry isn't born, When everything makes sense. Good poetry is born, When nothing makes sense.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose. — Kapil Sibal Copy Share Image
My favorite kind of day, is a rainy; cloudy kind of day. I wish rain would fall everyday, as I lie down… — Kasey Clark Copy Share Image
Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“Alive. This music rocks me. I drive the interstate, watch faces come and go on either side. I am free to be… — Joy Harjo Copy Share Image
There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not. — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
“Poetry was a barrier against raw emotions. It distilled them into bearable music, allowed one to accommodate them a little at a… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
In the poetry of immigrants, nostalgia is as common as confetti at parades or platitudes at political conventions. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
There is an Arabic writer who wrote philosophy and poetry and who brought all religions and all the world together. — Salma Hayek Copy Share Image
Sex is good, sex is fine, doggy style or 69, just for fun, or getting paid, everyone likes getting laid! — Jake Anderson Copy Share Image
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