Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable. — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
Mathematics may, like poetry or music, "promote and sustain a lofty habit of mind." — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand,” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“The recommended retirement plan is arabesque, then leap and smash on the seawall.” — Natalie Shapero Copy Share Image
“Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.” — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy” — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for… — Sandi Toksvig Copy Share Image
If you want meaning, you read poetry or a novel or something, you don't read song lyrics. You're supposed to listen to… — Roddy Woomble Copy Share Image
“I prepare my portrait for my woman to hang on a wall when I die. she says: Is there a wall to… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't as relevant in the Western world as it is in Afghanistan. And not many people make time for something that… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something historical,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
All I try to do is portray Indians as we are, in creative ways. With imagination and poetry. I think a lot… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“Where there is no speech we must live in despair. And exile is first of all where our speech has been silenced… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
“We of the here-and-now are not for a moment satisfied in the world of time, nor are we bound in it; we… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“Who will believe my verse in time to come, If it were fill'd with your most high deserts? Though yet, heaven knows,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Poets and men of action differ: the former yield to their feelings in order to reproduce them in lively colors, and therefore… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“I am a butterfly poet birthed from pain flying with the freedom of my verses.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
“And when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“Death stoops over me. I'm a problem in chess. He has the solution.” — Tomas Tranströmer Copy Share Image
I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time. — James Crumley Copy Share Image
“there were no bones in his body, only tunes, and no blood, but poetry.” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
