“Spirituality is the poetry of our experience. Science is the gauge of our reality. Together, they create the essence of our humanity.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“I'm angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
That poetry survived in its formal agencies finally, and that prose survived to get something said. — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts. — A. A. Milne Copy Share Image
“Come back now and help me with these verses. Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life.” — Donald Justice Copy Share Image
“As Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) pointed out, twilight 'is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the… — Jessica Kerwin Jenkins Copy Share Image
I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
I wanted to reimagine the role, in a way that was respectful of its traditional responsibilities but made them part of a… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“And her heart sprang in Iseult, and she drew With all her spirit and life the sunrise through And through her lips… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
By and large I think art is made by people who have discipline married to talent in sufficiently large amounts to work… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“… the river sliding along its banks, darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“You have chosen not to be perturbed by great problems, having trouble enough to forget your own fate as man. You are… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
“THE BEAUTY Poetry is beautiful, in my eyes. Its words are aged with wisdom. A poets tears burn words, to vanish sighs,… — Angela Khristin Brown Copy Share Image
Believe it or not, I sold my first novel, 'Crank,' with only seventy-five pages complete. It was in verse then, and it… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
With "poets dead and gone" as Keats says in "Mermaid Tavern" they are alive and talking to us and us to them. — Gregory Orr Copy Share Image
“I sometimes think you despise poetry,' said Phineas. 'When it is false I do. The difficulty is to know when it is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
“This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.” — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“You have dirty hands and dark wild eyes, but by far you are the purest heart I have ever known.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry is like having sex with the universe and the language is just a condom.” — TRIPURARI Copy Share Image
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I don't write very much about penises. More than some poets but not perhaps as much as I should. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus. — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
“My love, can't you see how much i love thee For i through your eyes shall see Our great love for all… — AMAL SAGHEER Copy Share Image
The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Now of all voyagers I remember, who among them Did not board ship with grief among their maps?” — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Pondering and listening to the inspiration. Thinking bout the correct terms so you can feel the relation. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
Time ain’t nothing, but time. It’s a verse with no rhyme, And it all come down to you. «El tiempo solo es… — Kerstin Gier Copy Share Image
