My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law. — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
It seems that God took away the minds of poets that they might better express His. — Socrates Copy Share Image
Prose poetry is not set to a melody or music so there's something freeing about it. — William Beckett Copy Share Image
If you read three books a day you couldn't read all the poetry that's being published. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“There was no text. “Real” poems do not “really” require words. I” — Layli Long Soldier Copy Share Image
The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“This is the way the world ends- Not with a bang Not with a whimper But with an E minor chord on… — Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra Copy Share Image
Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.” — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“...gripping the rim of the sink you claw your way to stand and cling there, quaking with will, on heron legs, and… — Barbara Blatner Copy Share Image
“He loved me, but in a lukewarm way. I needed scalding, but he loved in one temperature; tepid.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
“But as we all know, it is the fairy-tale creatures - the misfits, the weirdos, the wanderers, the flakes, the poets, the… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies.… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure if I can write a love poem while it’s still just a prospect pirouetting on the horizon, but when… — Simone Stolzoff Copy Share Image
“What is truth?” I said. “Is it the shallow assurance that something literally took place, or is it about something far deeper,… — Michael Lister Copy Share Image
“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“ Life is the season for loving and caring, for laughing and caroling, giving and sharing. Christmas is meant for the same,… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“And for you, I think, a religious life,' she said, a calm certainty all over her crisscrossed face. She didn't even bother… — Patricia Lockwood Copy Share Image
I believe strongly in what John Keats called negative capability: the trait or practice that allows a poet to remain in uncertainties,… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
...but when The Spirit speaks,—or beauty from the sky Descends into my being,—when I hear The storm-hymns of the mighty ocean roll,… — Robert Montgomery Copy Share Image
No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. — William Temple Copy Share Image
“I am in love with the serendipitous poetry with which this universe expresses itself.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
“To be loved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“The poetry was all in the anticipation - there is none in the reality.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“If on thoughts of death we are fed, Thus, a coffin, became my bed.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way to express yourself, you can give one word a thousand meanings — Kendyl Smith Copy Share Image
