If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“Yet deep inside I know that I'm truly blessed that I was loved by someone like you. I'll always love you my… — Chimnese Davids Copy Share Image
“They went forth to battle, but they always fell; Their eyes were fixed above the sullen shields; Nobly they fought and bravely,… — Shaemus O'Sheel Copy Share Image
It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Like every great writer before or since, Jonson understood that the best poets 'are both made and born'. That all great writing… — James Shapiro Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
“Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Here, Earth-born, over the lilt of the water, Lisping its music and bearing a burden of light, Bosoming day as a laughing… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“By the sweet power of music: therefore the poet did feign that Orpheus drew trees, stones and floods; since nought so stockish,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Robin Goodfellow is a very old faerie. Not only that, he has ballads, poems, and stories written about him, so he is… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“Happy the man...with a natural gift for practising the right one [art] from the start-- poetry, say, or fishing; whose nights are… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“Every mother should be a true artist, who knows how to weave into her child's life images of grace and beauty, the… — Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Copy Share Image
I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be… — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
“Leaning into the afternoons I cast my sad nets towards your oceanic eyes. There in the highest blaze my solitude lengthens and… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“The maiden with her wheel of old Sat by the fire to spin, While lightly through her careful hold The flax slid… — Madeline S. Bridges Copy Share Image
“Utensil While feasting On venison stew After we buried my mother, I recognized my spoon And realized my family Had been using… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Reanimated, spirit restored, reincorporated, body restored, I contemplate between dreams the scene I’ve stolen like the one who took fire, like the… — Pura López-Colomé Copy Share Image
“In an old family album Ever again you return, Melancholy, O meekness of the solitary soul. A golden day glows and expires.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lord when I was just a tender young kid I cry for my Dad when I was abused by the hands of… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry,… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From darkness; take me unto Light. O God! Help me today, make my maiden flight. From sorrow; give me the strength to… — Madhavi Sood alias Madhavi Mohandas Copy Share Image
When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
We must remember that there is a great difference between a myth and a miracle. A myth is the idealization of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we… — Anna Wickham Copy Share Image
You are a shell of a person, like a human but hollower. The second you quote somebody, you are a motherfu*king follower.… — Syoung Copy Share Image
...the wonderful poems interpreting with equal magic the romance of strange lands and times, or the modern soul, naked and unashamed, as… — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
“An oracle must cross the moat of logic and reach the inner poet that resides, perhaps repressed but nonetheless alive, within all… — Carol K. Anthony Copy Share Image
At the outset, it is only liking, not understanding, that matters. Gaps in understanding ... are not only important, they are perhaps… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
“Ah!' said Michel, tempted, 'you have modern poems?' 'Of course. For instance, Martillac's 'Electric Harmonies,' which won a prize last year from… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“The Correspondence-School Instructor Says Goodbye to His Poetry Students Goodbye, lady in Bangor, who sent me snapshots of yourself, after definitely hinting… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
“The Psalms are the steady, sustained subcurrent of healthy Christian living. They shaped the praying and vocation even of Jesus himself. They… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“Certainly not! I didn't build a machine to solve ridiculous crossword puzzles! That's hack work, not Great Art! Just give it a… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“This creative tension between wonderful and terrible is named so well by Gerard Manley Hopkins, as only poets can. Even the long… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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![“I know there's some poetry that sort of sounds like daisies, but most of the good poetry is also [political], you can feel the heartbeat; it's about some situation that concerns human beings under duress. It's suggesting a solution, or just acknowledging that [the situation] exists. Art does that.” quote by Toni Morrison](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/540/toni-morrison-271_art_i-know-there-s-some-poetry-that-sort-of_2786675.jpg)
