“Imagination makes the world and all the wonders in it. The seed of every dream unfurls as you with love begin it!” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Time is a seed we’re given. We bloom, we decay, we’re reborn— shaped by the seasons we survive. Thorn or blossom, we… — Poe Avondet Copy Share Image
“There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“For nine more nights they trained, after an arduous day’s march, Vaelin would try to turn a poet into a swordsman.” — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it,… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Poetry should be vital--either stirring our blood by its divine movements or snatching our breath by its divine perfection. To do both… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
The poet's job is to put into words those feelings we all have that are so deep, so important, and yet so… — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Seeing you dumpster diving the other day, I meant To say hello and toss you a quarter, but the Secret Service wouldn't… — Linh Dinh Copy Share Image
“Poet Wrestling with Words Some are clouds, mist, vapor Some are diaries written with tears Some appear like dew--a Friend in Time… — Theresa Rough PhD Copy Share Image
“One of my wishes is that those dark trees. So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze. Were not, as 'twere,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“I never have time to write anymore. And when I do I only write about how I never have time. It's work… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“Summer days, and the flat water meadows and the blue hills in the distance, and the willows up the backwater and the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Art devoid of danger lacks many other things as well: pleasure, beauty, and the ability to save us. Poems that divest the… — James Allen Hall Copy Share Image
I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd… — Beth Kephart Copy Share Image
“Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet. But a plan and a series of unfortunate events saw those dreams dash… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“You are the poem I never knew how to write and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell.” — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
“...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
“we were all born to the same world but with much greater circumstance but with these two hands and what I have… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
The life is like a image in mirror. it is so beautiful, so clear but so sensitive, it break into many parts… — Deepak Copy Share Image
I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly,… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Times change, as do our wills, What we are - is ever changing; All the world is made of change, And forever… — Luís Vaz de Camões Copy Share Image
My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness. — George W. Romney Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of people in this world who want to be miserable: poets and method actors.” — Steve Kaplan Copy Share Image
Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range” — Mpho Leteng Copy Share Image
“So Mr. Pizarsky had been a poet? That was how he’d said it: “I was a poet." As if the poet had… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.” — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
