“With heaven in our hearts, life is romancing us with glimpses of the universe dancing.” — Ann Louise Ramsey Copy Share Image
“Poems ought to reflect the work the poet does, and his relationships with other people, and family, and institutions, and organization.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
One day You will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my… — Jalal Ad-Din Rumi Copy Share Image
“...Age gave her the peace, at least, to live inside that moment like a poet - to not sacrifice the beauty to… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“It’s a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its… — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
“Good God, Enrique was writing poetry to her? Yes, and why hadn’t he thought of poetry? Besides the obvious reason of his… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
“If I could describe myself, I'd say that I am a poetic gerd. (A geek and nerd combo) I love Shakespeare and… — Melanie Kay Taylor Copy Share Image
When I finish writing a rap verse. It's a lot like sex: You start off slow with ideas, like foreplay, and then… — Drake Copy Share Image
“She: The Final Becoming There comes a moment, one that’s often overlooked or misinterpreted, where the search for identity stops being a… — L. Rose Copy Share Image
Latino patriots have served and fought in every war. They are artists, dancers, singers, poets and journalists, teachers and scientists. More and… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
A perfect poem is impossible. Once it had been written, the world would end. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two… — Don Pendleton Copy Share Image
If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I am charmed by concrete poetry (but it's very hard to do well, I think) and in general by the idea of… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
To walk quietly until the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
First, a poem must be magical, then musical as a sea-gull and it must hold fire as well. — Jose Garcia Villa Copy Share Image
The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Listen. Outside this frame I can see light, heavy as pardon, reliable as granite. Help me. Help me drag it into the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“this chair where i sit and write my poems is beat up and scratched, held together with wire, tape and hope. you… — John Yamrus Copy Share Image
For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“If you write a phrase and think, 'Wow, that's really poetic, that's really pretty, I really nailed it,' you get rid of… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it;… — Harry Mathews Copy Share Image
“I loved them all equally, from the short story, to the poem, to the play, for nothing could touch me so deeply… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, wishes. Who looks inside, finds infinite wisdom.” — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
“But... that's absurd!' he cried, flushing. 'Your poem is in praise of Jesus, not in blame of Him- as you meant it… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at different times.” — Wendy Higgins Copy Share Image
“The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
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