“The accepted view appears to be that Neruda represent the real Chile: a place of poetry, freedom of spirit and international enterprise.” — Brian Keenan Copy Share Image
Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“Many Castles On My Travels i have been A guest in Many castles Yet the Monument Which i Find Divine Is the… — Silent Lotus Copy Share Image
“His poems have no capital letters in them, which is, I believe, the essence of modernity.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position.… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I hope you find someone who holds you like you're the greatest piece of art God's ever put in their hands.” — N.M.Sanchez Copy Share Image
“Now that Karen has been resurrected, I can travel beyond the black mirror. I can discover who I have lost with the… — Nicholaus Patnaude Copy Share Image
“If you had swum across the furthest ocean And seen the vastness of infinity Though dread of death might seize you, you'd… — Goethe Copy Share Image
It wasn't supposed to be this way. The artists, and the scientists, and the poets...none of them fit in at seventeen. You're… — Mouth McFadden Copy Share Image
When ... I comprehended that poetry had no provision in it for ultimate practical attainment of the rightness of work that is… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Zulus Are No Different With Chinese When It Comes To Fighting. They Love Showing Off Their Skills And Talking Too Much Before… — Lekoma Precious Napo Copy Share Image
He was not such a special person. He loved to read very much, and also to write. He was a poet, and… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ There are Four of Us I have turned aside from everything, from the whole earthly store. The spirit and guardian of… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“She was mined for the children in her, one daughter, then another, a short seam, quick to clay, and not a single… — Robert Wrigley Copy Share Image
Bonaparte knew but one merit, and rewarded in one and the same way the good soldier, the good astronomer, the good poet,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music.… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“Let me be clear. I applaud self love. I appreciate self value. But if you're not capable of loving another person just… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I am only a fighter, in the form of a writer, in the form of a poet, potency in the mic. — Wale Copy Share Image
One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Human bodies are words, myriads of words; In the best poems reappears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay;” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
But since I have a poet's weakness for symbols, I am using this character also as a symbol; he is the long-delayed… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
“In the republic of poetry, the guard at the airport will not allow you to leave the country until you declaim a… — Martin Espada Copy Share Image
“I am a more disinterested Ginsberg admirer than Eddie is. Eddie, so to speak, comes to the table with a croupier’s rake.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Starting with a melody, she'll lead you far away down passages of poetry where dreamers often play.” — Susan Waterwyk Copy Share Image
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
There's so much to think about when you're becoming an adult, and there's so many great poems about that apprehension and excitement. — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy! — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“I am the weaver of hope, searching shadows for silver strands of stars. I make light out of darkness. I make dreams… — Christy Ann Martine Copy Share Image
I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
A poem is but a thought, a mere memory caught at play. From hand onto paper, bleeding thoughts emerge. — Robert M. Hensel Copy Share Image
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
