“Poetry is a way of expressing your thoughts, feelings, and your emotions, it's how you go through life in your own special… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are all just humans trying to survive in this crazy world, in the spaces between birth and death.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
“doves exist, dreamers, and dolls; killers exist, and doves, and doves; haze, dioxin, and days; days exist, days and death; and poems… — Inger Christensen Copy Share Image
“you’re already naked in this world in this time in this life beacause your next love your next hunger you next laughter… — Baharak Sedigh Copy Share Image
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
“The Quiet World In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes,… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
I approach video games the same way I approach theatre, filmmaking, poetry, or painting. I wish more people would take that point… — David Cage Copy Share Image
“A wind starts to blow, without feelings, A song falls in love, without singing, A life will begin in melodies of the… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
The events in America now have the quality of things you would find out about long after the fact, and think: if… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
When I started to take literature and poetry classes, I just started to get inspired by these new incredible works of art… — M. Ward Copy Share Image
Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Drama, it would be as if you wrote some poetry. You'd run the risk of being embarrassed if people read it, because… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the guardian of love - constructed from truth it is a bridge that can be crossed from either side and… — Rodney Compton Copy Share Image
One of the things that is wonderful about hymns is that they are a sort of universally shared poetry, at least among… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Your soul is so bohemian, free and gypsy wild. Come swim with me in the calming sea, let's be mermaids for awhile.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“She senses your vulnerability, and reassures that every dream you’ve ever whispered in the night, or secret desires you dared not speak,… — Holly Ducarte Copy Share Image
The original Greek meaning of the word anthology is a collection or gathering of flowers in bloom. — Jane Garmey Copy Share Image
“There's something to walking with autumnal thoughts through the evening fog. One likes to compose poems at a time like that.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
My favourite poem is called 'Roots and Wings' - it's a very moving poem about how if you've got real roots you… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
What a poem can do is provide you this intimate eye that, for the length of a poem and hopefully a little… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“What is the savior of the world doing among these wire fences, in all this broken glass?” — Janet McAdams Copy Share Image
Golf is to me what his Sabine farm was to the poet Horace - a solace and an inspiration. — Ramsay MacDonald Copy Share Image
“I aim to be lionhearted, but my hands still shake and my voice isn’t quite loud enough.” — Michelle K Copy Share Image
The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
“Think how the joys of reading a Gazette Are purchased by all agonies and crimes: Or if these do not move you,… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and… — Henry Purcell Copy Share Image
Also, I designed a pretty fascinating bracelet, where you put a rubber band around your favorite book of poems for a year,… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I am talking about poetry. It's like that line from [John] Yeats: I go back to "where all the ladders start/ In… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful… — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't… — J. Milton Hayes Copy Share Image
“Then all the charm Is broken--all that phantom-world so fair Vanishes, and a thousand circlets spread, And each mis-shape the other.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
In truth, I'm still slightly embarrassed to say, I am a poet. I'd rather say, I make poems. — Henri Cole Copy Share Image