Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this…

True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry, the son…

— Stephen R. Lawhead

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer…

— Daisaku Ikeda

[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative identification. And…

— Libby Houston

The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what…

— Peter Davison

I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for…

— Sarah Kay

“The guillotine is the masterpiece of the plastic arts Its click Creates perpetual motion ("The Head")”

— Blaise Cendrars

“I prefer to call it fiscal decapitation.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Often, the King would dance himself, rolling his scapulars and weaving his steps around the skulls of his favourite victims. Or he would amuse…

— Bruce Chatwin

“I’m no expert with females”—the others rolled their eyes at that—“but I believe an attempted decapitation communicates the need for some space.”

— Kresley Cole

Decapitation is a fanciful strategy.

— John Mearsheimer

“She was damned if she was going to let a little thing like decapitation stand in the way of keeping him.”

— Jane Timm Baxter

I was under the care of a couple of medical students who couldn't diagnose a decapitation.

— Jeffrey Bernard

“That's the thing. Fortunately, she came down with a nasty case of decapitation before she could bite me.”

— Steve McHugh

“There’s a wishing well in hell Where every wish is granted. Decapitation gets decanted.”

— Anonymous

“I am certain, my love, that poetry was born only after your birth.”

— Kamand Kojouri