A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without… — Augustine Birrell Copy Share Image
“Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said, Are innocent and fathomless And when I look at them I see That they are not… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
You ever hear guys with small cocks talk about sex? Can't talk about it enough. They even got poems. They'll say, 'It's… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Once in a while it vanishes - in the sense that I become deaf to beauty for a week or two or… — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
“I have heard what the talkers were talking . . . . the talk of the beginning and the end, But I… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Only by the aid of language does reason bring about its most important achievements, namely the harmonious and consistent action of several… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
If I wouldn't of spent so much time shooting spit wads at my English teacher I'd know how to punctuate good thing… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“Those who don't feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of spring water… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“The silence. End of all poetry, all romances. Earlier, frightened, you began to have some intimation of it: so many pages had… — Sofia Samatar Copy Share Image
“ The Arden Shakespeare is intended both as a student text and as a revision of traditional scholarship. If it is to… — Peter Porter Copy Share Image
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the… — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“I made these sonnets out of wood; I gave them the sound of that opaque pure substance, and that is how they… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“ Remember Remember me when I am gone away, Gone far away into the silent land; When you can no more hold… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
“Artists are makers, not just mouthers of slippery discourse. Language, the poets' medium, should not be privileged over the protean materials of… — Camile Pagli Copy Share Image
I did a film recently in the Republic of Georgia [upcoming 'Halo of Stars'] which was based on a long poem written… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“moonlight the falsest the most languid the most petit-bourgeois strikes me I like it” — Nazim Hikmet Copy Share Image
“Mungkin seseorang masih tak tahu lirih perih dalam rintik rindu ini. Selamat malam, kamu yg berlalu dalam gerimis.” — Helvy Tiana Rosa Copy Share Image
Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Poem - I meet your eyes. You don't even see me. You hardly respond when I whisper hello. Could be my soul… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
