“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it, either in poetry or painting, must produce a… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me" Last night the rain spoke to me slowly, saying, what joy to come falling out… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense… — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
By the age of nine I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish… — Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Copy Share Image
“...after I published a paper showing that suicidal poets used pronouns differently from non-suicidal poets, a slightly inebriated poet threatened me with… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
“Trying to explain feelings that are foreign to your heart, make communication daunting, even frightful. How does one express sensations that cower… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
“My bones and shadow won't be able to greet each other, because both will rest in undying peace... but my tears and… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Love can be such a mysterious muse and seductress... spinning her magical web of stardust and emotional euphoria. True love sang her… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
If you look at the world with parted lips and a pure heart, and will the good, won't that make a true… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“The poets made all the words and therefore language is the archives of history, and, if we must say it, a sort… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well.… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
I love Nicki Minaj, I told her I’d admit it, I hope one day we get married just to say we f-cking… — Drake Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“ Children's Song We live in our own world, A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even… — R.S. Thomas Copy Share Image
“…Beloved, Today I have sought you throughout my city and your strange city, where the buildings do not rejoice to the sun,… — Eunice Odio Copy Share Image
I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
The reason I often say, for me, photography is analogous to poetry, for my kind of work more so than journalism, is… — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
“ To His Coy Mistress Had we but world enough and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down,… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
“I have heard ballads of great battles, and poems about the beauty of a charge and the grace of a leader. But… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“If I could find one word that would shudder the air like that frightened sob, that wordless prayer of my newly-born, who… — Kenneth L. Patton Copy Share Image
I write a lot of children's verse and I think it delights in the language. It pleases people. It's very musical. It's… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
“I bleed on paper, they think it's poetry. I cry for tolerance, they call it philosophy. I reject prejudice, they call it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Palestinian society is filled with poetry, but not experimental poetry. The Palestinian poetry that people know is not the modernist experimentations, it's… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
If I knew what I was doing, I'd be doing it right now. I would be the best damn poet, silver words… — Keith Urban Copy Share Image
“Ah, Lalage! while life is ours, Hoard not thy beauty rose and white, But pluck the pretty fleeing flowers That deck our… — Ernest Dowson Copy Share Image
“If it's that ails you, I tell you there's little hurt getting old, though young girls and poets do be storming at… — J.M. Synge Copy Share Image
“As for us, we behave like a herd of deer. When they flee from the huntsman's feathers in affright, which way do… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Great is the art, Great be the manners, of the bard. He shall not his brain encumber With the coil of rhythm… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In 2013 there were 7,427 poetry readings in April, many on a Thursday. For anyone born in 1928 who pays attention to… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
“For though my rhyme be ragged, Tattered and jagged, Rudely rain-beaten, Rusty and moth-eaten, If ye take well therewith, It hath in… — John Skelton Copy Share Image
“A non-programmer friend once remarked that code looks like poetry. I get that feeling from really good code, that everything in the… — Kevlin Henney Copy Share Image
Janice Gould is one of our best poets. The music of her poetry will delight you, and her gentle courageous accounts of… — Leslie Marmon Silko Copy Share Image
The secret of understanding poetry is to hear poetry's words as what they are: the full self's most intimate speech, half waking,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of… — Nikky Finney Copy Share Image
“The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I step naked into the… — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
