A poem is an instant of lucidity in which the entire organism participates. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the latter poetry has become science. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life. — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. — Maxwell Bodenheim Copy Share Image
To a poet, silence is an acceptable response, even a flattering one. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
To be a poet at twenty is to be twenty: to be a poet at forty is to be a poet — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can:… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, . . . The little toil of love, I thought,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms, each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other. — Jonathan Lockwood Huie Copy Share Image
Basically, my musical life is split between raving with drugged-up kids and reading obscure 75-year-old poetry, drinking very nice red wine with… — Henrik Vibskov Copy Share Image
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry...I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Love Untamed, unbridled, unfair Timeless, ageless, never painless Selfish, selfless, righteous n’ wicked Lingers on and on It weeps; it laughs, it… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
I had a very humane, what the great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova would probably have called 'vegetarian,' experience of migration. It involved… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
We think "reading the Bible in context" means thinking about the handful of verses before and after the verses we're looking at… — Michael S. Heiser Copy Share Image
I got you a present." "Did you?" "It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thought, 'How schmaltzy is that,' so it seemed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or… — Carly Simon Copy Share Image
