“Poetry has a mysterious way of illustrating the landscapes of life. One can't help but love its audacity to record the journey.” — L.v. Jones Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“These hands will never go away they will scoop you up at anytime anytime that you want to be loved” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
“Poetry excites innate emotions and perceptions that let you create a new world where you have never visited and no one else… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“That poem is so damned long. You'd think old Walt could have taken a line or two to tell us how to… — John Green Copy Share Image
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman is a practical poet, taming her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she approaches. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men. — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
“It came to me on a winter day. Life so full and rich will fade. Though I wish it were not so,… — Lee Argus Copy Share Image
“They walked slowly, taking the shortest way, deliberately cutting through Campo delle Fava to avoid the crowds in Calle della Bissa. When… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
I love poetry. It's at the heart of everything I do. Poetry transforms what we call language, and uses language as the… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
“My favorite words in the world are these: “what” and “if” in conjunction. They question curiosities in simple form and function. “What”… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Sorry to inform you...but as a fellow failed miner, the problem is there's nowhere left to dig. We're real poets man. And… — Wesley Eisold Copy Share Image
“Reminiscing in the drizzle of Portland, I notice the ring that’s landed on your finger, a massive insect of glitter, a chandelier… — Jeffrey McDaniel Copy Share Image
“Activist, poet, and community leader Aneb Gloria House captured that legacy in her poem written on the occasion of Grace’s 100th birthday.… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
For me, the creation of a photograph is experienced as a heightened emotional response, most akin to poetry and music, each image… — Ruth Bernhard Copy Share Image
“We swam deep in the waves, a wild chase .. Stained with memories and pain. Who knew a gulf would lay between?… — honeste Copy Share Image
The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does… — Jean-Claude Izzo Copy Share Image
In perhaps 50 years, 60 years, we can finish completely this civilization, and offer to our children the possibility to invent a… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
“You are either in a state of perfection or a state of learning. Reading is one of the best ways to learn… — Cupideros Copy Share Image
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
I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of freshness and charm in '400 Blows.' There is also a great deal of visual poetry in… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Once an interesting idea or theme occurs to me then I would want to write a poem about it. The rest, frankly,… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
“with shrunken fingers we ate our oranges and bread, shivering in the parked car; though we know we had never been there… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth. — George Carey Copy Share Image
A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against. — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to… — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
If you've got a verse with a lot of rhythm, you want to pair it with something that doesn't. — Max Martin Copy Share Image
I have no very sophisticated understanding of literary forms. Short stories are shorter than novels, and poems are typically shorter than either,… — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton , I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
