“Even though I seem not human, a mute shelf of glucose, bottled blood, machinery to swell the lung and pump the heart—even… — Dudley Randall Copy Share Image
When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“I'm... like a poet hidden In the light of thought Singing hymns unbidden, Till the world is wrought To sympathy with hopes… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I went through a phase of reading lots of Urdu poetry, thanks to the great transliterated versions that have become available. — Satya Nadella Copy Share Image
“I am thinking of poets who haven't written well in years but who rubbed against the sun twenty years ago-- Aren't they… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
The world needs poetry now more than ever. It's the only thing that can keep music from copying itself and sounding the… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
We tell each other stories to help each other live. That’s why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That’s… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
“without any assistance or guidance from you i have loved you assiduously for 8 months 2 wks & a day i have… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
“How, in the contemporary period, can we evoke the imagery that communicates the most profound and most richly developed sense of experiencing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
This appears at the bottom of my friends web posts: ____________________________ A man once approached the great preacher Charles Spurgeon with a… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“For it is a peculiarity of persons who lead rich, emotional lives, and who (as the saying is) live intensely and with… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
“Why do you suppose the poets talk about hearts?' he asked me suddenly. 'When they discuss emotional damage? The tissue of hearts… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“My own dim life should teach me this, That life shall live for evermore, Else earth is darkness at the core, And… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
Take Ezra Pound's translations of poetry from Chinese. He doesn't really know Chinese, and the very strange results that he comes up… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
The poetry of this one is called philosophical, of that one philological, of a third rhetorical, and so on. Which is then… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Here one is expected to endure, to be both warrior and peacebringer, to be lover and savior and poet and friend. Here… — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“When the tidal waves wildly behaving My bare feet on the shore busy saving The calm warmth leaking out of the sand… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
I always admire writers. My father was a writer, a poet. I always admire people who can clearly state their mind. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
All my closest friends came to me through poetry. My wife, too! Other than my family, poetry is the gravitational force of… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“She was a poem and a painting too. Everything she said sounded like a song, every silence was the music too.” — Akshay Vasu Copy Share Image
For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“Sir U__ fell down from a speeding train, Which did some damage to his brain, And after that he did not know… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What poet would not grieve to see His brother write as well as he? But rather than they should excel, He'd wish… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“Sleeping Atlantis Silent cool waters dancing upon her skin ~ silent cool water ushering dreams within...” — Muse Copy Share Image
I think there's no excuse for the American poetry reader not knowing a good deal about what is going on in the… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“A sonnet might look dinky, but it was somehow big enough to accommodate love, war, death, and O.J. Simpson. You could fit… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“You will have a story in there. . . or a character, a place, a poem, a moment in time. When you… — Patricia MacLachlan Copy Share Image
The poem is a process, a way for me to discover questions, to ask them clearly or to discover the results of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
The astronomer who catalogues the stars cannot add one atom to the universe; the poet can call an universe from the atom. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“You had this expression on your face, like you weren’t quite sure you were supposed to be on Earth.” — pleasefindthis Copy Share Image
When I got to Scotland, I signed up on a site called Meetup. It's like these group things you can do -… — Tanya Saracho Copy Share Image
I never paid attention when people said, "That's gotta be poetry. That's gotta be fiction," except when I was in a graduate… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
