The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Herman has taken to writing poetry. You need not tell anyone, for you know how such things get around. — Elizabeth Shaw Melville Copy Share Image
“Beauty crowds me till I die, Beauty, mercy have on me! But if I expire today, Let it be in sight of… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair Of not being able to express With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out." — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There was a library and it is ashes. Let its long length assemble. Than its stone walls its paper walls are thicker;… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“Here dwell together still two men of note Who never lived and so can never die: How very near they seem, yet… — Vincent Starrett Copy Share Image
Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The grandeur of the poem is that Job pleads his cause with God against all the remonstrance of religious authority, recognizing no… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The one man who should never attempt an explanation of a poem is its author. If the poem can be improved by… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
“A grieving son was given the opportunity to write parting words on a card at his mother's funeral. He quoted the verse,… — Megan McKenna Copy Share Image
“Coleridge wrote a poem called ‘The Eolian Harp,’ in which he explored the notion of music slumbering on its instrument. It's a… — Amal El-Mohtar Copy Share Image
“It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious... Poetry is a religion without hope.” — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that… — Jamie A. Hughes Copy Share Image
“I am dead to the world’s tumult, And rest in a quiet realm! I live alone in my heaven, In my love,… — Friedrich Rückert Copy Share Image
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
“you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the most potent of all literary forms. If prose is candle light, poetry is dawn.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. — Ouida Copy Share Image
The deeper the love the stronger the emotion. The stronger the emotion the greater the devotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to explain poetry. You have to understand the poetry and figure out your own take and your relatability. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
“The sea waves stirred before me they dashed against the rocks Like a mermaid rising from its depths curled white sea foam… — Giselle V. Steele Copy Share Image
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves,… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I just love anything that's super-heightened. That feels more real to me, a more honest channel to express emotions. Like, poetry over… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
