Basho is the great poet of Japan, writing in the second half of the 17th century, but his work is still incredibly… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
I thought it was irrelevant to talk about what a wonderful thing poetry was if you didn't teach people to read. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
“Ideas were found by the freethinker, expressed by poet with the new words, formulated by scholar into knowledge.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
“I am Absolutely Infinitely Grateful Right Now I am Grateful to Radiate Love for the rest of my life I will bless… — Rhys Blanco Copy Share Image
“We are against war and the sources of war. We are for poetry and the sources of poetry.” — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay. — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
Campion is a poet who knows that what a poet sees is nothing without a mixture of formal prowess and emotional insight. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. Write, for instance: "The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing… — Kali Uchis Copy Share Image
“When you're sixteen or seventeen meaning can be anywhere. A drop of rain running down the window is a symbol, a song… — Jane Alison Copy Share Image
The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose… — John Denver Copy Share Image
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words… — Aulus Persius Flaccus Copy Share Image
“A snake bites your ankle. Recoiling, you scream. Fearing poison, your mind slips into a dream... ...where a man bites your ankle.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“To want to give to prose the rhythm of verse (but keeping it very much prose), and to want to write about… — Gustav Flaubert Copy Share Image
That's one of my homies. Whenever he hits me up, he's like what do you want to do and I'm the same.… — B-Real Copy Share Image
Like fire poetry is a shadow that makes the heart want more. When you see that all you're is words, the water… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“She was so beautiful it made her teeth ache. He made a mental note not to attempt poetry.” — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement. — John Locke Copy Share Image
“Since when," he asked, "Are the first line and last line of any poem Where the poem begins and ends?” — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Poetry, for me, is the answer to, 'How does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?' It's… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
“I’d Poe’s nude for the approval of a dead poet. No names come to mind, but I’m sure there must be one… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Poetry will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know. — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
I listen to a lot of hip hop artists, and I think hip hop and poetry go hand in hand. The 'Def… — J. J. Redick Copy Share Image
The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It only takes one line, from one poem to change your world...What has poetry done for you lately?” — David S. Cross Copy Share Image
Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I'm an actress, primarily. I love to write poetry. I've been writing poetry since I was 12 years old. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
In a Transtromer poem, you inhabit space differently; a body becomes a thing, a mind floats, things have lives, and even non-things,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“I wonder how many women are held up in their bed waiting to be sung to, served wine to, read poetry to,… — Brandon Villasenor Copy Share Image
“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man. Not in him but off from him things are grotesque or eccentric… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that,… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
The fairy poet takes a sheet Of moonbeam, silver white; His ink is dew from daisies sweet, His pen a point of… — Joyce Kilmer Copy Share Image
I've been a character actress right from the beginning. I was no more like 'Cinderella' in my real life than I was… — Lesley Ann Warren Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of poetry in working out how things work, cutting bits of metal, trying to mend stuff. — James May Copy Share Image
Fog and hypocrisy - that is to say, shadow, convention, decency - these were the very things that lent to London its… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
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