“You who are sitting before me have the power to change my consciousness into painting, poem, melody or anything else!” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. The poem tells me it’s no big deal that I’m not… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“...that imperial guard which poets and humanists mount in relay around any great memory.” — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The human spirit is poetry enough and I understand that, but I write to make it transparent to a world in love… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
“The head's a cloud anchor that the feet must follow. Travel light, he said, or don't travel at all.” — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Siapakah yang lahir dari jari jemari puisi? Yang memetik waktu di taman kenangan? Kau hanya tersenyum menatapku sambil membujuk hurufhuruf itu untuk… — Helvy Tiana Rosa Copy Share Image
“If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud's interest in his own work had… — Graham Robb Copy Share Image
Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new,… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Why do most people write poems about nature? For the same reason that every community center is propped up with industrious, self… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“Autobiographia Literaria" When I was a child I played by myself in a corner of the schoolyard all alone. I hated dolls… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Fallen It was the night a comet with its silver tail fell through darkness to earth's eroded field, the night I… — Linda Hogan Copy Share Image
“Every move, every sigh, every moan; everything you do for me is poetry from your soul to mine. You are my favorite… — Kirk Diedrich Copy Share Image
I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own. — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“Our ignorance often accelerates us. So much of what we know of motion propelled by what we don’t know about impact.” — Michael Schmeltzer Copy Share Image
I've been most happy to be an advocate for the kinds of grassroots things that people are doing who care about poetry. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money either.” - Robert Graves” — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. — Simone Muench Copy Share Image
A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“This process is what the poet E. E. Cummings would call the moment you feel you are nobody but yourself.” — Hilaria Baldwin Copy Share Image
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“Our spirits are connected honey. Wrapped in firsts of gnarled heartache. But I promise not to let go if you don't.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Cada vez que te enamores no expliques a nadie nada, deja que el amor te invada sin entrar en pormenores” — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've sung in Russian, I've done an anecdote in Russian and a poem in Russian. My mother can no longer say I'm… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances. — Douglas Dunn Copy Share Image
When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves -… — Alicia Silverstone Copy Share Image
