“People are surprisingly poetic. Especially when they’re not trying to be.” — Lewis Morris Copy Share Image
Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new — Rory Sutherland Copy Share Image
“There was a war all over the world and all over the world was grief. And yet I whispered into jewelled ears… — Jaroslav Seifert Copy Share Image
I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to.… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“Como se acuerda con los pajaros la traduccion de sus idiomas? How is the translation of their languages Arranged with the birds?” — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
A strong, brave man is born each month, each year God gives a sage to men, A poet each ten years, perhaps,… — Ridgely Torrence Copy Share Image
Poets often are dealing with history and are thinking about the way history moves across us, and we move in it. — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth. — Jean Marais Copy Share Image
I believe that poetry is a picture painted in colourful words. If your poem doesn't move you, then don't expect it to… — Thabang Tshabalala Copy Share Image
“If poetry is a circus, then the Big Tent we're under has to have room for a lot of different freak shows.” — Alan DeNiro Copy Share Image
“Next: We walk by faith. Second Corinthians, chapter five, verse seven: “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” The most faulty… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
My father, composer Sardar Malik, used to say that a good musician should always try to imbibe good poetry. One reason why… — Anu Malik Copy Share Image
For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Poetry or science, what matters is saying it how you see it. Saying precisely what and how you saw, and no more.… — Ruth Padel Copy Share Image
“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A Robin Redbreast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage. A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons Shudders Hell… — William Blake Copy Share Image
“Folly is so human that it has common roots with poetry and tragedy; it is revealed as much in the insane asylum… — RICHARD HOWARD Copy Share Image
