“How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use! As tho’ to breathe… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
“Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. — Horace Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
I would love to write a script, for sure. I write poetry and songs. But writing a script needs a lot of… — Ayushmann Khurrana Copy Share Image
I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry… — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
“But love of one kind will never duplicate itself. Love has its variety...which possibly makes it as a great as all the… — Dan Skinner Copy Share Image
Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“A Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons Shudders Hell… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“If a man finds himself haunted by evil desires and unholy images, which will generally be at periodical hours, let him commit… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“The songs of Japan take the human heart as their seed and flourish as myriad leaves of words. As long as they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“This magnificent poem [Exodus 15:1-21] has been much analyzed, dissected, scanned, and compared with an array of supposed precedent and counterpart works.… — John I. Durham Copy Share Image
I had always been literary, in the sense of loving poetry and discovering novels, but I found my voice, as they say,… — Andrew O'Hagan Copy Share Image
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first. — Feist Copy Share Image
“Time goes by at the speed of life Slower than a slow dance on a hot summer night Faster than the skin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“A book, a poem, a play — they start as fantasms but they end up as things, like a box of crackers… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth's noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
“...these vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Empecé a escribir poemas cuando descubrí que se podía querer a una persona que no era de tu familia, menuda sorpresa me… — Gloria Fuertes Copy Share Image
Horace's best ode would not please a young woman as much as the mediocre verses of the young man she is in… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
A rapper is not known by his face.its his lyrical ability,how he throws words on beat and his poetry which makes him… — SARkARR Copy Share Image
Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics. — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else Would overset the brain, or break… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Watch me go. Watch me. Because you said i couldn't. Because you thought I wouldn't. Go on, cry now. Cry.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“there is a difference between someone telling you they love you and them actually loving you” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“I am not afraid to die because I know heaven is a place of artists, musicians and poets” — rassool jibraeel snyman Copy Share Image
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
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