A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“And fourthly, what need hardly be said twice, That good but rarely came from good advice.” — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“ My Creed To live as gently as I can; To be, no matter where, a man; To take what comes of… — Edgar Albert Guest Copy Share Image
“Poetry or science, what matters is saying it how you see it. Saying precisely what and how you saw, and no more.… — Ruth Padel Copy Share Image
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Next: We walk by faith. Second Corinthians, chapter five, verse seven: “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” The most faulty… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
My father, composer Sardar Malik, used to say that a good musician should always try to imbibe good poetry. One reason why… — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
“Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had… — George Polya Copy Share Image
“Folly is so human that it has common roots with poetry and tragedy; it is revealed as much in the insane asylum… — RICHARD HOWARD Copy Share Image
“Annant is Pickwick paperless, the hunter of wisdom and due to Lovelace heart, a budding poet-ass.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“In everyone’s life, there is a line between reality and dreams; but poets don’t have that line.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“I give the command and adhere to the impulses arising from the same power that balances the stars and spins the earth… — Rhys Blanco Copy Share Image
I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“For all but the sliver of poetry fans, over the past forty years popular song lyrics have been the nation’s poetry.” — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“I feel like shredded paper thrown to the wind, each poet took a piece of me and wrote a word or phrase...” — Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco Copy Share Image
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“Dear friend, I have searched all night through each burnt paper, but I fear I will never find the formula to let… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't,… — Eminem Copy Share Image
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
Before you ridicule, remember somebody on a railway platform who seems to be train spotting may actually be writing poetry. — John Hegley Copy Share Image
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Swan-white of heart; I smile not ever neither do I weep. I am as lovely as a dream in stone.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
