“As I lay like a corpse in this dreamy insomniac dimension, I spit quotes out of thin air and pluck strands from… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I like to read a lot of books and poems. Even though poems are short, I enjoy the emotions that come with… — Jeongyeon Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there,… — David Meltzer Copy Share Image
“Don’t go to sleep one night, wrote Rūmī, the thirteenth-century Persian poet. What you most want will come to you then.” — Phil Knight Copy Share Image
“Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town. ( Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme il pleut sur… — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
“Always open, to risk and danger, to fun and laughter; to let in life and let out love.” — Dave Preston Copy Share Image
Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“in this moment of orangutans, wolves, and scavengers, of high heat redesigning the north & south poles and the wanderings of new… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
“Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“During the hours when which our souls should be taking flight... Dancing almost endlessly with our hopes and dreams... As if only… — Christine Upton Copy Share Image
As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Theology is-- or should be-- a species of poetry,which read quickly or encountered in a hubbub of noise makes no sense. You… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Love, is it morning risen or night deceased That makes the mirth of this triumphant east? Is it bliss given or bitterness… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“He was rowed down from the north in a leather skiff manned by a crew of trolls. His fur cape was caked… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind… — David Antin Copy Share Image
“The Great religions are the Ships, Poets the life Boats. Every sane person I know has jumped Overboard. That is good for… — Daniel Ladinsky Copy Share Image
A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction. — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line… — Robert Frank Copy Share Image
“Don’t forget to love her. The little girl you used to be. Perhaps She lies within you. Untucked. Sleeping peacefully. — “Nurture.”… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination. — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
“everybody loves me because i'm good at making people feel good. i'm good at making people feel good because i have had… — Sabrina Benaim Copy Share Image
“Is there life before death? That’s chalked up In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain, Coherent miseries, a bite and a sup, We hug… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Poems are not for explaining," she said, her tone as bored and faintly scornful as his. "They are for pretty girls to… — Emily Horner Copy Share Image
There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Rap is more of a poetry and a way to express one's feelings, but they're starting to mess it up and I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To be a poet in a destitute time means: to attend, singing, to the trace of the fugitive god. This is why… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers. — Peter Coyote Copy Share Image
“Take me when I'm wild. Take me when I'm free. Take me for me and I will take you as you want… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“...always- the sharp, plaintive edge on the rim of the spoon of my giving. (lines 8-13 of the poem 'Confessions')” — Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno Copy Share Image
“I am deep. therefore you can't wade in the kiddie pool and expect to find me." - Alfa "And I've never wanted… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
“She's the kind of girl who brings you to the moon without you even being aware. The kind of girl you trip… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
