Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“...for life's not a paragraph/ and death, i think, is no parenthesis.” — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world. — Gerhart Hauptmann Copy Share Image
“It takes a strong man to be with a woman full of fire and stars and all of October.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Love is the poetry of our feelings. But there are some horrible poems. — Antonio Gala Copy Share Image
“One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Love songs or poetry? Ambrose: Love songs–you get the best of both, poetry set to music. And you can't dance to poetry.” — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
“Seek not equality with either white or any other nation open your eyes and see behind their pretended pleasure and power is… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I picked up a sword and began slashing out words, shielding myself behind adjectives and verbs.. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
With 'Peradam', the nature of the project was such that it was deeply immersed in spiritual concepts in India and is based… — Anoushka Shankar Copy Share Image
One breath taken completely; one poem, fully written, fully read - in such a moment, anything can happen. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“The sonnet, a lyrical poem, the beauty and magic... convey with our hearts the truth of the universe in a single moment… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“But my heart is an old house (the kind my mother grew up in) hell to heat and cool and faulty in… — Clementine von Radics Copy Share Image
Be careful what you think, because your thoughts run your life. Do you want to be happy tomorrow? Then sow seeds of… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“These are immigrant times And the lines are long, The signs for jobs few, The songs sadder, the air meaner. Everyone is… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
“O King, may the world bow to your command; May lips drip with expressions of thanks and salutations; Since it is your… — Audrey Truschke Copy Share Image
Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of… — Dennis Nurkse Copy Share Image
“So I’m reading some poem by Louise . . . something, I forget her last name, but it’s about Hades and the… — Julie James Copy Share Image
When I began rapping, I only had one form at my disposal. All I had, all I needed was a rhyme verse;… — Kate Tempest Copy Share Image
Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
if I had one ambition it was to make my life itself into a poem. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
In Northern Ireland, helicopters are not usually used to promote poetry. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“I see the life with your sight, O" the love; you're my light.” — Debasish Mridha M.D Copy Share Image
Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality. — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“But to cast my life away just like that for nothing at all -- that I won’t do.” — Jaroslav Seifert Copy Share Image
“Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
