We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
“In the sentences of poetry prosaic words should serve only as detours to a greater poetic expression, both abstruse & plain.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
If I could catch a rainbow, I would do it just for you. And share with you its beauty, on the days… — The Forgotten Copy Share Image
That is why I think, in defiance of Plato, that there is at once error and vulgarity in saying that poetry is… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“2 to 1 2 hearts 1 beat 2 lips will meet 2 birds 1 stone 2 never b alone 2 wills 1… — Clarissa Clemens Copy Share Image
I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
When my father got the letter from Satyajit Ray saying I could work with him, I had to give up 'Saat Hindustani.'… — Tinnu Anand Copy Share Image
The true historical genius, to our thinking, is that which can see the nobler meaning of events that are near him, as… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Or like a poet woo the Moon, Riding an armchair for my steed, And with a flashing pen harpoon Terrific metaphors of… — Roy Campbell Copy Share Image
Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“line came into my mind, something that Hannah Arendt had once said about the poet Auden: that life had manifested the heart’s… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“(Wallace) Stevens turns to the idea of the weather precisely as the religious idea turns to the idea of God.” — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“Foggy nights bring some comfort. He can get lost in the mist and there is no one to stare or question.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
“Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me, Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….” — Sappho Copy Share Image
The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Love withers but never dies. Its tendrils are embedded on fecund soil awaiting the nourishing spring to make it sprout once more.” — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
“I am filled with the thought that there's nothing more thrilling than all those things in your future, waiting to be known.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes you need a biologist, and sometimes you need a poet. Sometimes you need a scientist, and sometimes you need a… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“your smile. is the ultimate golden dream. all the poems in the world are waking up from.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Truck drivers stop me and say, 'What is the poem for the day?' or 'Give me a poem for my girl.' I… — Nipsey Russell Copy Share Image
Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
In particular, a really big inspiration for me, creatively, is Lana Del Rey and her music. I find her to have that… — Esther Povitsky Copy Share Image
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness,… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
“If I were to choose between the power of writing a poem and the ecstasy of a poem unwritten, I would choose… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
I was 12 or 13 years old. So I started to write poetry and fiction, even though I was really into biology… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
