A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.” — César Vallejo Copy Share Image
It's very important to me to be an American poet, a Jewish poet, a poet who came of age in the 1960s. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Remember, a stranger once told you that the breeze here is something worth writing poems about.” — Shinji Moon Copy Share Image
I believe in rooting poems in actual places, even if you move into some other extraordinary realm. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her. — Guy Johnson Copy Share Image
“I think of feminism as poetry; we hear histories in words; we reassemble histories by putting them into words.” — Sara Ahmed Copy Share Image
“I'm so good that I'll do what you want me to do--for I feel there's something else you want me to do."… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Old English poetry also contained a wide range of conventional poetic diction, many of the words being created to allow alliterative patterns… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Writhe and sway to music's pain searing with asides, caress death with a lover's touch for it shall be your bride. — Lou Reed Copy Share Image
I always was a rebel...but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted...and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic,… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
The truly astounding thing is the Baathist regime supports poetry like nobody else, probably in the world. — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“When an immigrant speaks of feeling uncomfortable just know, you are in the presence of man who knows what the sting of… — Hannah V. Sawyerr Copy Share Image
“Fucking gorgeous man. And the best part? The way he looked at me. Like I was the prettiest girl in the room.… — Alice Clayton Copy Share Image
“I have an attraction to strange and unusual things. I find them interesting, spellbinding, utterly fascinating.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Then one can't make a living out of poetry? Certainly not. What fool expects to? Out of rhyming, yes. — Jack London Copy Share Image
I'm not a rock star writing poetry. I don't feel like a rock star and I don't know what one is, actually.… — Gord Downie Copy Share Image
Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable. — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
“Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.” — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry… — Brian Harris Copy Share Image
The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage. — Plato Copy Share Image
“Oceanic farness treasures tomorrow Mingled tears lost in the sea of sorrow Our immortal love will lead us a way When pale… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
You will find meaning in life only if you create it.It is a poetry to be composed. It is a song to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My mind: a thousand hungry daughters, my harlot heritage. Marbles: lost, no rescue search. Your heart: blooming thorns, and a stolen grocery… — Virginia Petrucci Copy Share Image
As a prose writer, I work with language; and those who work with language turn to poetry for renewal. — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you. — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white… — R. S. Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry. — Anthony Mackie Copy Share Image
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
