“Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to glow to be seen. You don’t have to be whole to be worthy.” — Rita Kay Copy Share Image
Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I'll tattoo your heart with words from my soul, and ink from my pen.” — Renee Dixon Copy Share Image
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing! — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
Poetry is something I love to do. Good poetry has an amazing ability to be communicative before it's even understood. I get… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
“A poem is never a put-up job, so to speak. It begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong,… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
“What! have you no poems by heart, no great songs, no verses from the Bible, no speeches from Shakespeare? Then you have… — John Macy Copy Share Image
“I grew into my hips when I was seventeen years old I learned from my mother She used hers like a boat… — Hannah V. Sawyerr Copy Share Image
18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the 'thees' and 'thous' of Victorian… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“In a world of weeds, she was a wildflower. In a world of prose, her voice was poetry, In a world of… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
Why is the feeling of insecurity so prevalent in this field? Because the actor is such a dependent person on other people.… — Akshaye Khanna Copy Share Image
You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“His heart was now beating rapidly. He wanted to embrace her, cover her with kisses, caress her hair, touch her breast, stroke… — Andrew M. Greeley Copy Share Image
My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“...But...to sing, to dream, to smile, to walk, to be alone, be free, with a voice that stirs and an eye that… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
“Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.” — khaled Talib Copy Share Image
One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I believe the poet shouldn't be in the poem at all except as a lens or as ears. — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“Not once or twice in our fair island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Poetry is eternal graffiti written in the heart of everyone. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“seeing a woman cough today made me sense a vague fear of death” — Brandon Scott Gorrell Copy Share Image
“The miscellaneous poetry of this age is nothing like the last; it is very poor.” — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
Let all Black Poets die as trumpets, And be buried in the dust of marching feet. — Etheridge Knight Copy Share Image
“Does the poem reside in experience or in self-consciousness about experience?” — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
“But is this not what poetry must do? To say the nothing that cannot be said?” — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. — Eli Khamarov Copy Share Image
