The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave. — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to — John Trudell Copy Share Image
“Be careful how you say your own mother’s name; How you articulate your blood.” — Nkateko Masinga Copy Share Image
“I think that the habit of gloomy poetry is very funny. It’s like a special competition in losing.” — Miroslav Holub Copy Share Image
“She just needs someone to remind her of all the things she already knows about herself.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody? — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Like fish, when metaphors get old, they go bad,” writes Christian poet Jeanne Murray Walker,9 and nowhere is that more apparent than… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
“Did you finish yours, Kota?" "Working on it now, Actually." "How's it going?" He sat up, turning in his chair and holding… — C.L. Stone Copy Share Image
Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
“Does poetry - or language or philosophy or music or architecture, even that of our temples - really need to dance to… — Maria Rosa Menocal Copy Share Image
Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been… — Richard Blanco Copy Share Image
I always had, you know, in the book of Hebrews, I think it's chapter 11, verse 1, where it says, "Now faith… — Naomi Judd Copy Share Image
We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing… — Olaus Murie Copy Share Image
