“we are at the crossroads, my little outlaw, and this is the map of my heart, the landscape after cruelty” — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
The poet will maintain serenity in spite of all disappointments. He is expected to preserve an unconcerned and healthy outlook over the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler. — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar - Requires sorest need. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“Love has turned many into poets; pain has turned many into artists; charity has turned many into pacifists, and anger has turned… — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread, If it is the soul you seek, you will find the… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“special thanks to Martha Sharpe and everyone at Anansi; to Mandy Barber, for the use of her stunning visual art; to Karen… — Darren Wershler-Henry Copy Share Image
“You once told me You wanted to find Yourself in the world - And I told you to First apply within, To… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be… — Noor Hindi Copy Share Image
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“A kite is a victim you are sure of. You love it because it pulls gentle enough to call you master, strong… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
In literature, questions of fact or truth are subordinated to the primary literary aims of producing a structure of words for its… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather. — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
“She'd been taking care of others for so long that she scarcely recognized herself when she looked in the mirror.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
“My father's love was always strongMy mother's glamour lives on and on.Yet still inside I felt alone, for reasones unknow to me.” — lana del rey Copy Share Image
This verse gets me through each day, what doesn't kill us makes us stronger! I am not afraid of anything because the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Oh, we were so wrong for each other, but the things we did to each other felt so right.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The topics just kind of come to me. If they are relevant, it's because they're happening in the world around me, and… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If it doesn't work horizontally as prose... it probably won't work any better vertically pretending to be poetry. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Lucretius wants to write the poem of matter, but he warns us from the start that the reality of matter is that… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text. — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other… — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
In a general way, I want to be a kind of flag-waver, bunting hanger-up, drum-beater, you name it, for poetry. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Duchamp likened an artist to a lewd monk. The poet must be a pure defiler of words, creating & destroying their meanings… — the mag man Copy Share Image
“I serve the king of dreams and I do his bidding. But you are correct once I was a poet and like… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Agar un ko pata ho ta k hum kitni sheedat say yaad karty ha un ko to wo hamay kabhi choor kar… — Anab Rafiq Copy Share Image
making final judgements about poets, cities or regions on the basis of an anthology is always dangerous: anthologies are mirages created, finally,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Art history and Elizabethan poetry don't employ workers; the arduous and tedious application of business sciences such as computer programming and accounting… — Edward Conard Copy Share Image
“In my more rebellious days I tried to doubt the existence of the sacred, but the universe kept dancing and life kept… — David N. Elkins Copy Share Image
Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own. — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
What if this were Hell, this absence of sleep, this poet's desert, this pain of living, this dying of not dying, this… — Leopold Sedar Senghor Copy Share Image
