There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his… — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet. — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“Katie.” He groaned. “I burn for you.” Just a few husky words, but coming from a man so taciturn, she thought they… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“In all our wrongs, I want to write him, in a time where I can find him. Before the tears that tore… — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
No amount of virtuosic skill and choice of subject matter can be a substitute for depth and poetry. — Scott Kahn Copy Share Image
“In the rain-swept afternoon my heart discovers the tragedy of autumn raining from the trees.” — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
“The best writing is what's right in front of you. Sometimes I'd walk down the street with poets and they wouldn't see… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
When a man's life becomes poetry, becomes a song, becomes a work of art, a creativity, he has become a sannyasin. Whether… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I cannot help but remind myself that all that time, you knew the truth. You allowed yourself to slowly make terms with… — Jesse Warner Copy Share Image
I wish I could make this better, dry the river of your tears. Take away the pain you're feeling, the memories of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Out there somewhere there is a love who will never dream of calling you too much. Who speaks, like you, in poetry… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“The Sword’s Quill Society The words which have been written, from the depths of one’s heart, have given stain to the poet’s… — H. Dirk Macgrieve Copy Share Image
“You say you are a poet of law; I saw you are a contradiction in terms. I only wonder there were not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Little bucktoothed alligator ready to taste my bills. Make something suffer. Make something stick.” — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
“She was broken. And i know,her heart can be repaired again. not by the "roses" and "chocolates" But by the "truths" and… — seerat ahuja Copy Share Image
Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can’t stop the lines in time, so I’m a… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“But poets don't want homes -- do they? -- they are not creatures of hearths and firedogs, but of heaths and ranging… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I ain't lyin' in my verses I'm just telling you the basics of growin' up with your friends and becoming the one… — Drake Copy Share Image
“it was dawning on me how uphill a poet's path was, and I confessed to her that if I had to be… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“It is always what is under pressure in us, especially under pressure of concealment--that explodes in poetry.” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I think the obligation of a poet is not to be in an ivory tower; it is not to be isolated but… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
“What is that verse? ‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is nether slave nor free, there is neither male nor female…for… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat.… — Katy Lederer Copy Share Image
“Today I write, riots with insite! Tomorrow I read, take the lead! Sometimes I sleep, health to keep! But for now I… — Leslie Austin Copy Share Image
“Readers should not be loaded with more information and guidance than a lively mind needs--puzzlement can be accepted, but insulting clarity is… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
“Love isn't a fairytale, not even close. But still, we wish for it, dream of it, Deep down, we die for it.” — Josie Dabish Copy Share Image
No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry.… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
