“The things that were needed to keep the imagination free were “all written down in this age of reason.” It was time… — Christopher E. Young Copy Share Image
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world.… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“And now the measure of my song is done: The work has reached its end; the book is mine, None shall unwrite… — Ovid Copy Share Image
“Be you still, be you still, trembling heart; Remember the wisdom out of the old days: *Him who trembles before the flame… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
What's the point of a promise, the world is full of lies, and money is never honest, true hearts fighting greed, green… — Cody Joseph Copy Share Image
I'm not musically trained and I'm not all these other things. I'm creative with a keyboard and a drum machine, but I… — Doseone Copy Share Image
“We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness,… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
“My art is that of the 35mm kind; my poetry is of the lead and ink kind; my happiness is of the… — Jeremy Aldana Copy Share Image
I write a lot, poems and such, and when I look at it the next day, I can analyze what the problem… — Roland Møller Copy Share Image
My junior high school teacher, Bennie Williams, was really more than a music teacher. She taught us poetry. She helped us put… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
“Humanity cannot lift itself by its own bootstraps; there is no such thing as spontaneous generation; life does not come from crystals;… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I've written on public matters, but I don't understand how anyone could tout me as a possible poet laureate when I wrote… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“They're waiting for you to say all these grand statements, you know? You march across the room and you're supposed to say… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
True love is a sacred flame that burns eternally, And none can dim its special glow or change its destiny. True love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Why is that I never get cut off from pity, sympathy, participation, in spite of the fact that I am living out… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“. . . a sense of humor is a sense of proportion. It is also a sense of delight--delight in noting life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
“We write a line we're especially proud of, and weeks later find it staring -no glaring - back at us from some… — Robin Behn Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was 10 or 11. I started with poetry because that was the easiest thing. It just kind… — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
But if a stranger in the train asks me my occupation, I never answer "writer" for fear that he may go on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On his last voyage he had seemed on the brink of success and had stood in the prow reciting a grand poem… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I was feeling a bit overwhelmed earlier. Thinking - what if it doesn't work out this time... again. And then I remembered… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact,… — X. J. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“He had not stopped looking into her eyes, and she showed no signs of faltering. He gave a deep sigh and recited:… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
“If you see a sunset and try to describe it to someone in normal words, all you can say is, 'Boy, I… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
If you like poetry let it be first rate, Milton, Shakespeare, Thomson, Goldsmith Pope (if you will though I don't admire him),… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“Ja sam gazio u krvi do kolena, i nemam više snova. Sestra mi se prodala i majci su mi posekli sede kose.… — Dušan Vasilijev Copy Share Image
Help, please, who wishes!I'm not englishspeaker, write poetry for children to help them to learn lang., Can natives speak in such way?… — Yulia Godliya Copy Share Image
“The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Poetry Love's Philosophy The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the ocean, The winds of heaven mix for ever… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Colliding with the bright light Of my true self, My illusions scream loudly, Themselves illusions Created by other illusions, Finally knowing that… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
![“Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times... Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you…” quote by John Cusack](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/3ee/john-cusack-3209_asks_poets-are-political-they-have-to-be-refl_951168.png)
![“Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of paper in the wastebasket, in the morning, and open it to see what the hell I'd been up to; and occasionally it was something that needed only a very slight change…” quote by Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/333/conrad-aiken-9766_balls_oh-i-ve-discarded-a-great-many-poems-and_2787753.jpg)
