When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am a greedy poet. I keep munching life all the time. Sweet, sour and bitter moments. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“… the fisherman’s daughter grinding serenity in her coffee grinder.” — Yannis Ritsos Copy Share Image
In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A felon could plead "benefit of clergy" and be saved by [reading aloud] what was aptly enough termed the "neck verse", which… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“I love you every day -for the code and the blush and the shrug of it. Make your mind up in me,… — Jacob Mcarthur Mooney Copy Share Image
The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan. — Cheng Man-ch'ing Copy Share Image
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“I don't want to heal you. I want to love you until your scars merge with the love bites on your skin.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Try to keep them, poet, those erotic visions of yours, however few of them there are that can be stilled. Put them,… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“You are not disposable. I know you feel that way when people choose to walk out of your life, but their emptiness… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“Plenty of times I've seen writers, famous novelists and essayists, even poets, with names you'd recognize and whose work I admire, drift… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation. If a man writes well only when he's… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“Oh,' said a very white body as it threw a wrist watch to the ground which broke without attracting anyone's attention, 'Oh,… — Robert Desnos Copy Share Image
I'm not sure about prizes. I don't know how far you can seriously raise public consciousness about poetry. Having a 'National Poetry… — John Fuller Copy Share Image
“ First Love I ne’er was struck before that hour With love so sudden and so sweet, Her face it bloomed like… — John Clare Copy Share Image
Humor is essential to survival. Funny poems are vastly underrated. Very underwritten. — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
“it's a myth, you know; he doesn't have to draw blood for him to leave a scar.” — Angeli Cabal Copy Share Image
“Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Never mock a sin of mine until you have walked a mile in my moccasins” — Neil Gevisser Copy Share Image
The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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