I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“I have a potent degree of love that is so unwise in one world that it is wisdom in another.” — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
“We, too, can divide ourselves, it’s true. / But only into flesh and a broken whisper. / Into flesh and poetry.” — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. — Luc Ferrari Copy Share Image
Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not… — Martial Copy Share Image
I always wrote poems when I was a little girl, and I loved hip hop music, and I kind of just started… — Chanel West Coast Copy Share Image
I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
“..in the last few years American poetry has come out of a poetry of complaint, not praising, and it was initially maybe… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
“Way too many of assholes dont know how to love so they try the only way they know by fucking you fisically… — Nesh Copy Share Image
The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think I did write any poems to fill narrative gaps. Not consciously, anyway. As much as possible, I try to… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“...part of trying to attract those poet-men was to look a little like I had wandered onto campus by accident after having… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“Her breast is fit for pearls, But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thrones But I have… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“the best and worst critics I had was in the Marine Corps, If you can share poetry to a bunch of opinionated… — Vincent Breit Copy Share Image
“. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along,… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In many ways, I feel like the form carries so much of the weight in a poem, obviously. But I think we… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“Mad Olia had a lot to say, and most of it was nonsensical, if it could be understood at all. Like bad… — Charlie N. Holmberg Copy Share Image
“Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.” — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
“If it doesn't sound insane, I would only talk about you and the only word which would come out of my mouth,… — Masood Azam Copy Share Image
“I'm one that will cause people to scratch their heads in wonderment in search of their hollow hearts and look in their… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
“Love’s language starts, stops, starts; the right words flowing or clotting in the heart.” — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful. — Bobby Green Copy Share Image
When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“My mind is heaven My eyes are the sun and the moon My awareness shines like the morning star.” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial… — Harley King Copy Share Image
What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“හද ළදල්ලකි වර්ණ සිතුවම් පතන Heart is a leaf bud wishing for colorful drawings (Translated by Himali N. Liyanage)” — Shasika Amali Munasinghe Copy Share Image
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts Make of so noble individual parts One fire of four inflaming eyes, and… — John Donne Copy Share Image
