“...it was a misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“I'll gladly settle for amnesia if I had to live in a world where I couldn't remember how much you mean to… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“Fruition- Think of writing as a harvest. You till the ground. Plant. Water. Wait. Apple trees take years to bear fruit. Harvest.… — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry,… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
“How do poems grow? They begin deep down in the pit of the soul as a seedling of a thought …” — Nanette L. Avery Copy Share Image
“Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties,… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“They say don’t fall in love with writers because their poems are messy and their letters are empty words dressed up to… — Courtney Peppernell Copy Share Image
“And for you, I think, a religious life,' she said, a calm certainty all over her crisscrossed face. She didn't even bother… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
“What is truth?” I said. “Is it the shallow assurance that something literally took place, or is it about something far deeper,… — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
“ Life is the season for loving and caring, for laughing and caroling, giving and sharing. Christmas is meant for the same,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust.… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“I have a sickness doctors can't cure, Inexorably pulling me to the well of my destruction, Consented to be a sacrifice, killed… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Put a person like this with four developing children and you're gonna need more than love poems and ice sculpture to stay… — Joshua Braff Copy Share Image
“a woman will tell you every home she has ever inhabited has been broken into starting with her body” — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
“In this way the insurrection began. Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
“Because anyone who has ever sat in lotus for more than a few seconds knows it takes a hell of a lot… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“I was the world in which I walked, and what I saw Or heard or felt came not but from myself; And… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“Kamu bilang cinta adalah baitbait paling purnama dalam hidup ini. Selamat malam, kamu yg gigil dalam puisi...” — Helvy Tiana Rosa Copy Share Image
Poetry's role is to provide spontaneous individual candor as distinct from manipulation and brainwash. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
History, at least in its ideal state of perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy. — Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild Copy Share Image
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm… — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
“Inside my head / or in a distant / Galaxy / Soft I hear it / Calling me." from the song "In… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things” — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words. — Jessie Redmon Fauset Copy Share Image
Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“From the sun to the moon From the clouds to the stars You are living in a painting under the skies” — J.WOLF Copy Share Image
Dear one, near me, truth assessed, reborn worldwise, mind at rest. True heart sow you, God has blessed, your soul whispers, love… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
