I wrote poetry for seven or eight years, maybe longer, before I could say I was a poet. If people asked, I'd… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
“To Have Without Holding: Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“We danced on broken glasses, painting a bloody masterpiece on the floor. The painful it got, the harder we danced. We didn't… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“Dance,' they told me, and I stood still, and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Night" The cold remote islands And the blue estuaries Where what breathes, breathes The restless wind of the inlets, And what drinks,… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
“She told him of a poem that described the three most prominent shoguns in feudal Japan and their methods of dealing with… — Marc Cameron Copy Share Image
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
When I was young I once found a book in a Dutch translation, 'The leaves of Grass'. It was the first time… — Karel Appel Copy Share Image
“Borges is particularly stimulating to a man who works in the cinema, because the unusual thing about his writing is that it… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
“Will there be no more irises in your garden tomorrow morning, or perhaps any rainbows that covet your roof will melt into… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the… — Alice Weaver Flaherty Copy Share Image
In poetry I can let the language go, allow an image that seems out of place to enter and see what happens,… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“ The Eagle He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world,… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
What I'm fighting for now in my work... for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or… — Emily Saliers Copy Share Image
“Where you find Truth Is where you find your reflection And where you find your reflection Is where you find love And… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Virtually everyone needs motivation of some sort, but when you are in love - that is motivation enough, it turns many into… — Bernard Kelvin Clive Copy Share Image
“Leave off driving your composers. It might prove to be as dangerous as it is generally unnecessary. After all, composing cannot be… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar,… — Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
The poet is the voice of the people. And when the poet presents certain ideas, two phrases in one poem can alter… — Donovan Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe we should carry backup plans in life’s suitcase— they’re too easy to unpack like living a life in yoga… — Kelli Russell Agodon Copy Share Image
“Poem for My Father You closed the door. I was on the other side, screaming. It was black in your mind. Blacker… — Toi Derricotte Copy Share Image
I have heard what poets write about women. They rhyme and rhapsodize and lie. I have watched sailors on the shore stare… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“That's old Twoflower, Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Authors can write stories without people assuming that they are autobiographies, but songwriters and poets are often considered to be the characters… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And When his wings enfold you yield to… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
For me, language and how I use it are very important. I held back on doing a poetry book, walking the fine… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
The workplace needs the poet's gift. But the poet also needs to be educated about the workplace. You're not just coming in… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Drop by drop rain slaps the banana leaves, Praise whoever sketched this desolate scene: the lush, dark canopies of the gnarled trees,… — Ho Xuan Huong Copy Share Image
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“Love Hurts. I daresay there’s two or three poems, six novels and at least twelve songs on the subject. That’s how the… — Daniel S. Fletcher Copy Share Image
“ Message I heard a cry in the night, A thousand miles it came, Sharp as a flash of light, My name,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“The poet’s insight into the unchanging spirit of humanity.…” “Insight” was a good word. My father was great on insight. I had… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“The heart is a small and lonesome place she is a country her eyes hold the river I used to swim her… — Kwame Alexander Copy Share Image
“Well, that explains the repeated commission of wanton acts of poetry. I was starting to feel like I was being punished for… — Chris Moriarty Copy Share Image
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
