“My best testimonies are from the times I thought I couldn't survive.” — Tanya R. Liverman Copy Share Image
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses. — JD Era Copy Share Image
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Do not awaken galaxies inside of someone if you are not even fond of stars.” — Lucy Quin Copy Share Image
There's this poet named Walter Benton, I really like his stuff. He always uses landscapes as a metaphor for the female body. — Borns Copy Share Image
On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once… — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
At the Touch of love, Everyone becomes a poet At the Touch of Breakup, Everyone becomes a philosopher .. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The poet is at the disposal of the night. His role is humble, he must clean house and await its due visitation. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“You carry stories under your bright sad eyes, bag loads and I wish to god I could help you unload.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision. — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread, If it is the soul you seek, you will find the… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
“One probably hears about it. One, wire, recognizes. One holds her bones up next to each other. One insists, grinding the clutch.… — Jennifer Clarvoe Copy Share Image
“Also, and again I intend no offense, the most meaningful and often harrowing adventures which I and many like me have experienced… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
“But while we are confined to books, though the most select and classic, and read only particular written languages, which are themselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
“Colonizers write about flowers. I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks seconds before becoming daisies. I want to be… — Noor Hindi Copy Share Image
Over all life broods Poesy, like the calm blue sky with its motherly, rebuking face. She is the great reformer, and where… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“You once told me You wanted to find Yourself in the world - And I told you to First apply within, To… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“Read a nice poem or watch the sunrise, both are the same thing!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Beauty can be born out of not only love, but also pain and other motivations.” — Following Whispers Copy Share Image
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“My house burned down But anyway, it was after The flower petals had already fallen” — Tachibana Higuchi Copy Share Image
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“Every verse in the scrolls of your days sings to us of hope and wonder.” — Zoe Klein Copy Share Image
