“We do not live in a world of things but among benedictions given and--do you know what I'm saying?--received.” — Irving Feldman Copy Share Image
“Don’t forget that the pain is temporary. So feel it. Let it have its moment, and then dismiss it. Because you’re not… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
When true legends unite ,And for a common cause they fight .Then its them- the Gods , who must fear their might — Kevin Knight Copy Share Image
Poems are the 'daredevil' of writing because a poem will say what nobody else wants to say. — Ralph Fletcher Copy Share Image
“There's a time for reciting poems and a time for fists. As far as I was concerned, this was the latter.” — Roberto Bolano ( ) Natasha Wimmer Copy Share Image
“Think of what starlight And lamplight would lack Diamonds and fireflies If they couldn’t lean against Black. . . .” — Mary O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“I don't have poetry like you do. I only know that I love how my sheets smell after you've been in my… — Lauren Dane Copy Share Image
“Poetry has a unique ability to distill complex emotions into a few lines, creating a powerful impact that lingers in the hearts… — LaTesha Monique Copy Share Image
“Poem from Rev. Jim Cotter, as listed on the opening pages of “Anatomy of the Spirit” by Caroline Myss: ~ God be… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving experience of rank differences. The work of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
When I first became brave enough to tell people that I wrote poems, so many people would rave to me about Edna… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“She pops her head into a bare-looking kitchen and has a little wander round it. Here, she reads, Emily would sometimes make… — Mick Jackson Copy Share Image
“He swept the ears to the floor with his arm and held the last of his wine in the air. Something for… — Carolyn Forché Copy Share Image
I knew what book we had to write, it was clear in my head; it was journals and poetry. So I passed… — Kenny Loggins Copy Share Image
They best can judge a poet's worth, Who oft themselves have known The pangs of a poetic birth By labours of their… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“...O deaf and mute and blind and beautiful and interminable rose who into time, attar and verse transmute” — Cecilia Meireles Copy Share Image
A poet or a comedian can say what's on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh.… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Go. Think. Turn black into white. Night into day. I am tired of thinking. I know where it will lead me and… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
“Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future And time future contained in time past.” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Our job is to become more and more of what we are. The growth of a poet seems to be related to… — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
When I state myself, as the representative of the verse, it does not mean me, but a supposed person. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The poet lusts after emotionally unavailable people because she doesn't have to worry about commitment. The poet desperately wants commitment.” — Trista Mateer Copy Share Image
“Self-care is taking all the pressures you are facing right now, and deciding to which you will respond, and how.” — Imani Shola Copy Share Image
I think hard times are coming. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries, the realists of a larger reality. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The poet is afraid to make any place feel too much like home because then she might have to stop running.” — Trista Mateer Copy Share Image
“How do you know they aren't the one? At the first sight of total disregard for your hurt, your gut will feel… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave… — Ovid Copy Share Image
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I want to write a poem about Truth, Honor, Dignity, and whether the toilet paper should roll over or under when you… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian,… — Clive James Copy Share Image
People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken.… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
