When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf. — Aja Monet Copy Share Image
There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The best poet is the man who delivers our daily bread: the local baker. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us. — Peter Altenberg Copy Share Image
“How like a winter has been my hard spring away from you, my harp. --Psalm” — David Lehman Copy Share Image
“You'd think hindsight would do us some good But all it does sometimes Is add glass to the kaleidoscope” — J.D. Estrada Copy Share Image
The Soul of the Warrior, Screams out for Battle. The Soul of the Poet, Cries out for Love. I sit between them,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“Live in the shadow of the moon until you're bright enough to give birth to your own suns.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“Ocean waves gently rock the boat, As if to the tune of a lullaby. She sits still as the boat silently floats… — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“In English sometimes they call a mentally disabled person a retard, and there is a kind of accidental poetry in naming a… — Jean-Christophe Valtat Copy Share Image
“Each night they left the balcony door open so they could hear the surf lapping against the sand. And, once when the… — Monica Starkman Copy Share Image
“I,” I’ll type. And that will be enough. Then there are the other days, when nothing is enough. The poem grins. It… — Lynn Coady Copy Share Image
Poetry is - it's an art form, but, to me, it's also a weapon, it's also an instrument. It's the ability to… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“Sensuality isn't worth a hair more than spirituality, and it's the same the other way around. It's all one, everything is equally… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In this great nation of saints and poets, public administrators and ingenious architects, has our national and local imagination shrunk so much… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
![“She [Carol Parsinan] somehow read my poems and came back to me and convinced me that I could be a poet, that I had the passion and the enthusiasm and the creativity to become a poet, but that what I was writing was not poetry because I was just expressing my feelings and I wasn't try to make…” quote by Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a3f/edward-hirsch-1614_carols_she-carol-parsinan-somehow-read-my-poems_3055277.jpg)
