I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“Look for me in sleepless nights, among the stars, I’ll be your guiding star... Look for me in the moments of happiness,… — Zorica Savron Copy Share Image
A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician. — Karl Weierstrass Copy Share Image
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
“Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
Even if I die my love for you will never say goodbye it might hurt the pain you feel the broken bones… — Jeremy Mark Limn Copy Share Image
“Consequently, to form the experience, the length of the line for a haiku thought must have the same length as the duration… — Kenneth Yasuda Copy Share Image
“For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“They say: I love you. But in poetry, I say: In your soul, I see a moonrise in the dark nights of… — Jayita Bhattacharjee Copy Share Image
“...often referred to herself as a bitch. It was a way of insulting herself and asserting herself simultaneously. She acted like a… — Ruth Harris Copy Share Image
What did you expect? That he'd send you flowers and write you bad poetry? That dead Nemean prowler is pretty much as… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
“I’m here for the show” the man said looking under Frank’s shirt for the door “I’m no theater” Frank said a line… — CAConrad Copy Share Image
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“the price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“ I uttered his name like a silent whisper of the falling rain - saying love is his game as the cool… — Elizabeth E. Castillo Copy Share Image
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know. And I may do it, if I so choose. You tell… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
Favorite poems are like favorite children. We definitely have them but we never tell as the others would have their feelings hurt. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“... in the world, it will be women, mostly colored and poor. women will have to bury children, and support themselves through grief.” — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Music gives inspiration...one that sounds windy with humming sound, such can put you in a trance, only to come back and discover… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cowboy/soldier is a poem a Vietnam veteran, Lenard Cohan, shares with Mary Devstena, a veteran of Iraq, in the novel Army… — J.S. McInroy Copy Share Image
Some guy is good at putting these verses together, and some guy is good at singing them. That's just the way it… — Frank Fairfield Copy Share Image
I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“I only wear suits to funerals and I only cash checks when the bank is about to take the house. from "surely… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“Let the dust accumulate. You have a story to tell, adventures waiting, life to love, love to share. The dust can wait.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control. — Rumi Copy Share Image
I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
It goes without saying that a fine short poem can have the resonance and depth of an entire novel. — James Wright Copy Share Image
