I have these rhyme-based ideas because I love Julia Donaldson. 'The Snail and the Whale' is one of the most beautiful poems,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
The deep-feeling poet is he who, while doing his works, abandons the body, gets inspired by the words of the heart and… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Love can't be proven with poems, promises, or presents... Sometimes, only pain and patience can prove it..!! — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Do not fall in love with me, for I will break your heart, long before you realize, you were going to break… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger; invisible hands draw back the curtains, a pallid finger writes forgotten… — Yannis Ritsos Copy Share Image
This assumption that the blue collar crowd is not supposed to read it, or a farmer in his overalls is not to… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I ain't much for words nor I'm a poetic ,but to show you my feelings. I will make a thousand of poems… — Michael Country Copy Share Image
And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“...our imagination, like stars, Hint at something in the distance. I don't know where we will be But we will light up… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
“The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain. not shoes but a place to walk.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Lionhearted woman carrying silver swords beneath your skin. Your heart is huge, copious courage you hold within. You fight and never give… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“A Spanish poet, Antonio Machado, once said: ‘Dijiste media verdad. Dirán que mientes dos veces si dices la otra mitad.’” “Translated means…”… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You poets are accustomed to finding words for everything beautiful and you don’t even grant that people have hearts if they are… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I know our Purpose is to love as when I love my body, I Radiate a Beautiful, Peaceful, Powerful Aura” — Rhys Blanco Copy Share Image
When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“Loving him was honest, sky blushed pink, hair stiff with salt as we raced down the beach. At fourteen, he said, “Hurting… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
“I breathe in...the silence of my own heart aching with tenderness with memories.. Of home.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart? — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“It is not easy to describe lucidly in short notes to a poem the various approaches to a fortified castle,” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said… — LeAnn Rimes Copy Share Image
“Caution not spirit, let it roam wild; for in that natural state dance embraces divine frequency.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
“After a night of insomnia the body gets weaker, Becomes dear but no one’s — not even your own.” — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves… — Horace Copy Share Image
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. — John Milton Copy Share Image
The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it. — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its… — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
“For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
