The irony is, going to work every day became the subject…

Irony is going to be hard to get. You have to be master of the literal first. But then, Americans don't get irony either.…

— Geoffrey Hinton

“There are few people in our life whom we never want to let them go but irony is sometimes all we can do is…

— Lovely Goyal

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words,…

— Paul Caponigro

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Love songs or poetry? Ambrose: Love songs–you get the best of both, poetry set to music. And you can't dance to poetry.”

— Amy Harmon

I know why the caged bird sings.

— Maya Angelou

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.

— Miller Williams

What poetry is asking us to accept can be difficult. Our proximity to our mortality, the fragility of our existence, how close we live…

— Matthew Zapruder

I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out…

— Lucy Larcom

The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a…

— May Swenson

That which moveth the heart most is the best poetry; it comes nearest unto God, the source of all power.

— Walter Savage Landor

The best poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can.

— Matthew Arnold

“Poet has no power over the muse, It's the muse who powers the poet. Best of poetry is an act of selfless care, As…

— Abhijit Naskar

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

— Emily Dickinson

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep…

— Robert Frost