I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“Wystan loved medical talk, and he had a soft spot for physicians. (In his book Epistle to a Godson, there are four… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Poems, like dreams, are a sort of royal road to the unconscious. They tell you what your secret self cannot express. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age. — Dave Beard Copy Share Image
Love, like poems, knows no boundaries. Religions, race, distance not even age can restrict someone from falling in love. — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin' to have a solo. — David Edwards Copy Share Image
God must love art because most of the Bible is expressed in the form of story or poetry. — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
You can write anything you want to,--a six-act blank verse, symbolic tragedy or a vulgar short, short story. Just so that you… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
One of my favorite artists is Tom Waits, whom most people think of as a wonderful singer-songwriter and a great poet. I… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“I’ve brought this city’s dust and smoke home and washed them with my face and clothes, I’ve picked up its raucous sounds… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
In America it's a particular problem. The artist, particularly the poet, is just unacknowledged; if I can use that dumb word. Maybe… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems. — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
“with the absolute heart of the poem of life butchered out of their own bodies good to eat a thousand years.” — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is not enough for poems to be fine; they must charm, and draw the mind of the listener at will. — Horace Copy Share Image
“In the forefront of our move toward change, there is only poetry to hint at possibility made real.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
“I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with… — Judith Minty Copy Share Image
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Cities and roads I have never seen Are in the background of your photos Yet, I don’t feel How faraway you are” — Shasika Amali Munasinghe Copy Share Image
“What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion, A shadow, a delirium, a fiction. The greatest good's but little, and this life… — Pedro Calderón de la Barca Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to… — Pablo Antonio Cuadra Copy Share Image
“And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art” — Percy Shelley Copy Share Image
For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation. — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege. — Keith Crown Copy Share Image
I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
“what? people exploit your gullibility? let them. remember, the more people cut off leaves of a tree, the much faster it grows.” — Pravin Gupta Copy Share Image
“When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn’t know which way any of them will go.” — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
“Lotus a star of detachment sultry feverishness of a tawdry universe incense of rejected poems lie in the void of me a… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
