The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
You have an absolute right to translate poetry in any form with any sound. It's all up for grabs. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
Heard ten thousand whispering and nobody listening. Heard one person starve, I heard many people laughing. Heard the song of a poet… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm never gonna wait that extra twenty minutes to text you back and I'm never gonna play hard to get when I… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“the hills like poets put on purple thought against the magnificent clamor of day tortured in gold” — E.E. Cummings Copy Share Image
In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
Local images have one kind of reality. 'U.S. 1' will, I hope, have that kind and another, too. Poetry can extend the… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“Pain Fuels My Pen (Sonnet) When I started writing, I had a partner, I had plans to settle in Sofia with her.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
At eight, I made a commitment to poetry. Until then, I thought I'd be a policeman. But I went a whole night… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
I cannot understand why the poets of our day wax indignant at the vulgarity of their age and complain of having come… — Gabriele d'Annunzio Copy Share Image
“I’m a picture without a frame. A poem without a rhyme. A car with three wheels. A sun without fire. I am… — pleasefindthis Copy Share Image
A muse is something that serves a poet well early in his or her career. In later years one writers out of… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I think a good story can do as much as a novel; not the exact same thing, of course, but just as… — David Means Copy Share Image
“After two or three stanzas and several images by which he was himself astonished, his work took possession of him and he… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I think poems belong as much in the news pages as the literary pages. A lot of people throw aside the literary… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“It's really rather easy to write eighth-century Chinese poetry," said Angus Lordie. "In English, of course. It requires little effort, I find.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut. — Anna Kamienska Copy Share Image
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal… — E. Merrill Root Copy Share Image
“Some have won a wild delight, By daring wilder sorrow; Could I gain thy love to-night, I'd hazard death to-morrow.” — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“All philosophers must, therefore, doff their hats to the poets when they discover that the path of reason takes them only so… — Hagiwara Sakutaro Copy Share Image
The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Rilke used to say that no poet would mind going to gaol, since he would at least have time to explore the… — Clive James Copy Share Image
When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“She burns like the sun Beautiful when she comes undone No restraints Pure passion flowing through her veins Madness refusing to be… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people. — Macklemore Copy Share Image
Being engaged with life. One has to develop a poet's eye for perfect moments, moments that most people pass by. — Jewel Copy Share Image
Men saw the stars at the edge of the sea They thought great thoughts about liberty Poets wrote down words that did… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
“Wait again. He was doing that fanciful thing, where he thought in poetry and looked in verse.” — Theresa Romain Copy Share Image
Soon we will meet at your heart, and you will love me more than my poems. At that time, you will discover… — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
“If the elements are the alphabets of chemistry, then the compounds are its plays, its poems, and its novels.” — Loretta Jones Peter Atkins Copy Share Image
I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline. — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“The language of poetry is a language of deep intimacy that is meant to touch the human spirit and awaken it to… — Ron Starbuck Copy Share Image
“I haven’t been very impressed lately. By people, or places, or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
It makes me happy to meet other poetry fans. Especially when they recommend poets I'm not familiar with. — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
