If we are moved by a poem, it has meant something, perhaps something important, to us; if we are not moved, then… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I always wrote poetry and stuff like that, so putting songs together wasn't that spectacular. — Amy Winehouse Copy Share Image
I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school. — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
“...who would have known the dark eyes staring into mine would become our children's eyes...?” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Historically, there are hierarchies of purity. Certain aspects of poetry are very, very pure. The lyric poem can't be anything but the… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“He shrugged. “Whatever does it mean? We write poems about it all day and sing songs about it all night but if… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“Nature, who has played so many queer tricks upon us, making us so unequally of clay and diamonds, of rainbow and granite,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I thought again about throwing language all over a scene, wondered if the emotional mystery of one's response to place doesn't lie… — Daniel Duane Copy Share Image
“Vergil preferred to give a few touches, and to allow the imagination of his readers to fill out the picture: that is… — Gilbert Highet Copy Share Image
Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
“At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“In you the earth… Little rose, roselet, at times, tiny and naked, it seems as though you would fit in one of… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Sylvia Plath's greatest poetry was sometimes conceived while she was baking bread, she was such a perfectionist and ultimately such a fool.… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Happy Easter to you, my friend! This day’s light shall have no end. For Christ did rise In the golden morn And… — Paul Kortepeter Copy Share Image
An odd phrase, "by heart," he would add, as though poems were stored in the bloodstream. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills. — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Roses are red violets are blue...Stars are beautiful to look at and shine just like you do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim… — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
“Words fail to describe what i feel anymore. Let me be numb for a while, let me be sore.” — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
Poetry reproduces an indefinable mood that is more amorous than love itself. Venus is not so beautiful all naked, alive, and panting,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I was always into poetry and writing. So the urgency of spoken word is something that really has always appealed to me. — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as… — George Oppen Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry felt silly, not practical. It was poetry. I wasn't exploring space here. But it felt necessary to me.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
“It takes more energy to find the words to describe poems than almost anything I can think of, except of course for… — Robert Newman Copy Share Image
“The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most at this time. There is, of… — Hemingway Ernest Copy Share Image
The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better. — Harriet Monroe Copy Share Image
The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm still in love with the parts I believed to be true. All the lies that began and ended with 'I love… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
