“Sink to the ground holding death's hand oh comrade if you are the father of great repose, if you are all you… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
When something is too beautiful or too terrible or even too funny for words, then it is time for poetry. — Eve Merriam Copy Share Image
As a poet and as an actress, we're taught to be far more elaborate with our words and - I wouldn't say… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poets and painters have the power to dare, I mean to dare to do whatever they may approve of... — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“There was no castle. You were simply listening to a record. A needle, swaying lightly on a black frozen pond, Led the… — Czesław Miłosz Copy Share Image
“life has me holding a grudge pouring coffee on my recollections not revealing where the moon finds its water” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Once I had thought chiefly of the man of letters, the traveler, the poet, the lover; none of that had faded, to… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“ You have a poem called “Bad Theology.” What would you call a bad theology? I guess any theology that presumes to… — Tony Leuzzi Copy Share Image
“Blue eyes. No, not just blue, blue like glacial waters, like romantic poems, like heavens and moonstones. Cornflower blue. And- Blue like… — Dani Alexander Copy Share Image
“So what if the heartaches you wrote last year isn't what you're feeling today. it may be exactly what the person in… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“See, Shel (Silverstein) was possessed with one of the worst singing verses ever heard. Musical appreciation is inherently subjective, and it's normally… — Peter Cooper Copy Share Image
If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse,… — Buzz Osborne Copy Share Image
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly… — Henry Kirke White Copy Share Image
In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful… — Maxine Hong Kingston Copy Share Image
Sweetheart, when you break thru you'll find a poet here, not quite what one would choose. — Diane di Prima Copy Share Image
Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
To know how to say what other people only think, is what makes poets and sages; and to dare to say what… — Elizabeth Charles Copy Share Image
The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“...the grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief.” — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I was always writing - whether it's ideas, poems, whatever - because we spent so much time in the car traveling from… — Mickie James Copy Share Image
She taught me everything I knew about crawfish and kissing and pink wine and poetry. She made me different. — John Green Copy Share Image
People called me Cilla when I was little because I was always singing and writing poems. — Nicola Roberts Copy Share Image
The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“Senja yang retak. Kapalkapal berlayar membawa kenangan. Airmatamu menjelma puisi paling duri, paling angin.” — Helvy Tiana Rosa Copy Share Image
I saw the poet in you when it was obvious that your type of women were all broken and were those who… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the… — Lee Ranaldo Copy Share Image
“Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.” — Piper Payne Copy Share Image
But who the fuck do we really put the blame on? The demons that are inside of her, or the ones who… — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Poetry is the report of a nuance between two moments, when people say, 'Listen!' and 'Did you see it?' 'Did you hear… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Simple things are found in ordinariness - but extraordinariness lives inside things that are loved.” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image
