I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Poetry's magic lies in the imagery which satifies even without interpretation..it is accepted as easily as it was created. — Robert Bridges Copy Share Image
“The feeling for words comes at an early age--or rather it is lost in most cases at any early age, leaving the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never let the mud puddle get lost in the poetry because, in many ways, the mud puddle is the poetry. — Valerie Worth Copy Share Image
To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry...… — Bruce McCulloch Copy Share Image
Poetry strengthens that faculty which is the organ of the moral nature of man, in the same manner as exercise strengthens a… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs. — Gregory Harrison Copy Share Image
“To-day, I will seek not the shadowy region; Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear; And visions rising, legion after legion, Bring the unreal… — Emily Brontë Copy Share Image
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge -… — Vissarion Belinsky Copy Share Image
“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
“Storm Ending Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers, Rumbling in the wind, Stretching clappers to strike our ears… — Jean Toomer Copy Share Image
In Eden I "saw" that Adam or Eve probably spoke each word FOR THE FIRST TIME and that seemed wild and seemed… — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
“Where did this come from?” I bristle at the question. “I wrote it right in front of you. I didn’t cheat.” “I’m… — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
Durable, memorable poetry is usually alert to complexity. A really good poem gives you a reason to read it 20 times, because… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
There are so many tender and holy emotions, flying about in out inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body… — Jean Paul Richter Copy Share Image
You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The poem is a form of texting... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Do three things each night before you go to bed: read a poem, read a short story, read an essay. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“We have only one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, to life itself, than this incessant business.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“He is power and poetry, grace and perfection, and I feel my body tighten in response to the beauty that is Damien.” — J. Kenner Copy Share Image
“I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.” — Melissa Lee-Houghton Copy Share Image
“There is a secret language in every kiss that brings us into the light, every kiss is a history within itself” — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“I have no doubt at all the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my "literary" sins --… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“i hope that whoever you are wherever you are and no matter how you are feeling you will always have something to… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“...Thought lengths it, pulls an invisible world through a needle's eye one detail at a time, ...” — Jennifer Grotz Copy Share Image
“She pronounced each word carefully, as though she was tasting fruit. The words of her poems were a most private and fragrant… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries. — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
“The poet Rumi says: "How long will we fill our pockets like children with dirt and stones? Let the world go. Holding… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I was writing since I can remember - I just didn't know it was poetry yet, or that writing could be a… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“The young Efrainite poets got around the city on foot, or by bus ...Some of the Efrainites were belligerent and used to… — Carmen Boullosa Copy Share Image
“When the door of Perception is wide opened in a human mind,he sought all the way around Universal Truth,let him understand,'whom to… — Nithin Purple Copy Share Image
To my mind, most prose poems are more prose than poetry. They don't possess most of the qualities of a poem. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
