A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words. — Paul Verlaine Copy Share Image
What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
One of the most important differences I see between prose and poetry is the music of the language. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
But where are the snows of last year? That was the greatest concern of Villon, the Parisian poet. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“What if the poem loses? What if it never tastes victory like the intent it was written with?” — Akif Kichloo 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 difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from… — Harry Callahan Copy Share Image
“when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Poets to Come POETS to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to-day is to justify me, and answer what I am… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“Too bad!' the feisty poet responded. 'Yes, too bad!' the stranger agreed, his eye flashing, and went on: 'But here is a… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“The things that will be spoken here come from the images and things that I see as well as hear. These object… — The Prolific Penman Copy Share Image
“The poet makes himself a seer through a long, tremendous, planned detachment of all his senses. All the forms of love, of… — Arthur Rimbauld Copy Share Image
“Girl in the wind blowing wide open the closed doors of my life - which way are we going? Standing against the… — Christy Brown Copy Share Image
“A poet is a person who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightening five or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A good poem has its own life. It's like bringing a child into the world. You, the poet, birthed the child, but… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“A feeling struck me one fine day that people call ‘love’, Before that my life was empty, all I had was loneliness… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
