“Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m no poet, I just wanna kiss you! love u zakiya” — Zakiya and Majid Copy Share Image
“Scatter as a prayer escaping my lips... as orchids blooming in clouds.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“If poetry is an escape into the woods, then music is the journey back home.” — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
The poets who do this are uniquely conscious of this silence, this stillness. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
“In the republic of poetry, the guard at the airport will not allow you to leave the country until you declaim a… — Martin Espada Copy Share Image
I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in… — Keith Green Copy Share Image
I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
“I am the weaver of hope, searching shadows for silver strands of stars. I make light out of darkness. I make dreams… — Christy Ann Martine Copy Share Image
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.] — Horace Copy Share Image
Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to flatter or… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets, — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The jester walked in the garden: The garden had fallen still; He bade his soul rise upward And stand on her window-sill.… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Whereas if you were writing an op-ed piece or an essay, somebody would be asking, "What's your point?" With poetry you can… — Claudia Rankine Copy Share Image
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“The Poetry of Love We see the world with the eyes of a small child. We visualize the beauty of the world… — Katerina Kostaki Copy Share Image
I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Beauty can break a heart and make it think about something more spiritual than the mindless routine we go through day after… — Ian Morgan Cron Copy Share Image
“And then a man of forty or so, with a French accent, asked, "How do you achieve the presence of mind to… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
![“A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]” quote by Horace](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d34/horace-172_comic_a-comic-matter-cannot-be-expressed-in-tr_712599.jpg)
