The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets. — Plato Copy Share Image
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
The form of a poem is invisible. A poem is not an "object." This is hard to accept in a mechanical age. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Truth and effort may increase human worth But they are not enough to make us whole; Only love can complete us.” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on… — Osbert Sitwell Copy Share Image
I know the sag of the unfinished poem. And I know the release of the poem that is finished. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“It was the poem that explained the nature of courage and turned the mystery of death into a heroic couplet. Ultimately, it… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
At another level, though, poems can craft an eraser - we can't revise the past, but poems allow us some malleability, an… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though;… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Naked solitude with neither gesture nor word. Transparent in the orchard, smooth as oil on the hill. Silent solitude with neither fragrance… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a niche genre, sure, but it has a way of opening people up. It opens me up. As with music… — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
genius is original, unique; and in whatever form it may develop itself is the greatest gift that can be given to man,… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
“ Wisdom When I have ceased to break my wings Against the faultiness of things, And learned that compromises wait Behind each… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Certain supplementary restrictions imposed on the text compel us to perceive it as poetry. As soon as one assigns a given text… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
