Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also… — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Copy Share Image
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
“Ginsberg was the favourite bohemian poet of straight college boys who wanted to transgress, and of gay college boys who were not… — Christopher Bram Copy Share Image
“It did not seem to me to be a time to guard myself against Love's blows: so I went on confident, unsuspecting;… — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“You touched my flawed life so gently with love burning upward in dark steady flame burning me, burning me into healing.” — Christy Brown Copy Share Image
Doubt not, O poet, but persist. Say 'It is in me, and shall out.' Stand there, balked and dumb, stuttering and stammering,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Yet in opinions look not always back,-- Your wake is nothing, mind the coming track; Leave what you've done for what you… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
“She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different. I lit a… — John Green Copy Share Image
Poetry at least in my own life, is really about your own mortality. Everything in poetry makes me think of my mortality.… — Keith Carter Copy Share Image
“The reason his father has no time for poetry is that he is afraid of the messiness of life. Poetry feeds on… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
“I dragged myself to my feet, and with my hellhound in tow started off once more through the fastness of the wood,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
“Hanged" I hung myself today. Hanged? Whatever, the point is I hanged myself today and I’m still hanging. I feel fine. Just… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“Once our souls collided and caught fire, there was no turning back. Love is a collision of two stars -- it's as… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“The purity of a revolution can last a fortnight. That is why a poet, the revolutionary of the soul, limits himself to… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
“They think the way to be a poet is to wear funny clothes and write sideways on the page.” — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Poetry… it consumed Sappho’s young years, it nourished Goethe’s old age. Drug, the Greeks called it, both poison and medicine.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.” — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Wamiqa means the goddess of wind; my dad is a poet and writer in Punjabi and Gabbi is his pseudonym. — Wamiqa Gabbi Copy Share Image
“Even stars are formed by loss. You know astronomers believe that galaxies are forged out of huge collapsing stars--- hollow, imploding on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As Henry Moore carved or modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello 4. and failed, but woke the next… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“LEASE Life Ends And Session Expires Kamil Ali - Poem, The Balance' - Profound Vers-A-Tales” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
“For the poet, the world is word. Words. Not that precisely. Precisely: the world and words fuck each other.” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“She loved to read her old poems. They are like photographs, she thought. There’s so much evidence of me.” — Leopoldine Core Copy Share Image
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital… — Samuel McChord Crothers Copy Share Image
“A great poet can have the role of spiritual head of a nation.A great ruler is the spiritual head of a nation,… — Anatoli Rybakov Copy Share Image
No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...and it made his heart shake to hear these things in the street or bus or dime store, the uninventable poetry, inside… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Poetry's medium is not merely light as air, it is air: vital and deep as ordinary breath. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
To most people who look at a mobile, it's no more than a series of flat objects that move. To a few,… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
