Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Rupi Kaur is an author and poet who posts the most beautiful, thought-provoking excerpts on her Instagram. — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
“Since you are gone, I collect the stars each night - building my own night sky, so I have something to hold… — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
“If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven, Then, to the measure of that heaven-born light, Shine, Poet! in thy place, and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by… — Victor Frankl Copy Share Image
We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
“How it all started was in the first day of English, when Brother John had us analyze some stupid poem, and you… — Nina LaCour Copy Share Image
I think about the poet Rainer Maria Rilke who said that it's the questions that move us, not the answers. As a… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
You could be a poet, an artist, a comedian - if you're in the culture of innovation then you embrace those who… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Hi Clara. I thought you would need someone to walk with today, so here I am.” Sorin, her friend that lived in… — Paige Ray Copy Share Image
Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“No matter how you were taught by your teacher about how to recite a poem, it is impossible to wear your teacher's… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
When you act, you've got to be like a poet or a musician. It's not about evidence before court. It's not a… — Rhys Ifans Copy Share Image
I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“Yes, it was late, and, yes, I was being very dented-in-the-head-mutant-hillbilly, But you... you just sat there like some shitty poem.” — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
Young poets bewail the passing of love; old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets from society because we refuse to admit to ourselves that there… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
“... And one day it dawned on me that I had spent entirely too much time waiting on you to grow a… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Si todos los rios son dulces de donde saca sal el mar? If all rivers are sweet where does the sea get… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“It's funny how fast a book goes, but how slow the wait appears. the book may end, but the mind still thinks...waiting… — Nandanie Phalgoo Copy Share Image
I wrote a staggeringly bad poem when I was 19 after a girlfriend dumped me. I seem to remember comparing her to… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“I fell out of love with him and he thought I fell in love with someone else, I did. I fell in… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
Poetry and preaching do not go well together; when the preacher mounts the pulpit the poet usually goes away. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the most poetry. — Leopold Schefer Copy Share Image
Life is a beautiful poem interspersed with the words of pain and pleasure and its script, music, composition, lyrics, chorus and everything… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
