“Years ago I used to pick a word of the day randomly out of an dictionary/thesaurus to write poetry. I learned then… — DragonPoetikFly Copy Share Image
In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today... The poetry of history lies in… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides… — Phineas Fletcher Copy Share Image
I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion. — Zona Gale Copy Share Image
“Once, in Thessaly, there was a poet called Simonides. He was commissioned to appear at a banquet, given by a man called… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.” — Hannah Senesh Copy Share Image
My hobbies are playing piano and guitar, pining for girls, worrying about climate change, pining for girls, and the poetry of John… — James Veitch Copy Share Image
“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“...have I told you? - your eyes are a dark poem of dancing snow at midnight ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
When I write poetry, I write in torrents. I have no interest in quality or finesse, only in quantity and waste. Scribble… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
The social revolution...cannot draw its poetry from the past, but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. — John Denham Copy Share Image
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
There are a lot of poems where I am questing for God. I don't think there is any finding of God. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
I loved my friend He went away from me There's nothing more to say The poem ends, Soft as it began- I… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“For it is a peculiarity of persons who lead rich, emotional lives, and who (as the saying is) live intensely and with… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious… — Ben Gibbard Copy Share Image
“His tales took on the form of an epic poem, and I felt I was hearing some Canadian Homer reciting his Iliad… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
When I write a poem, I do not have to worry about using a higher Urdu vocabulary because I know the reader… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“You say you like to be by yourself, I am like that too. Although I don't think company would be so bad,… — Bailey Nadeen Copy Share Image
A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet. — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“These are immigrant times And the lines are long, The signs for jobs few, The songs sadder, the air meaner. Everyone is… — Alberto Ríos Copy Share Image
When did "sentimental" become a pejorative barb? I do not at all share the notion that a piece of music, or a… — Bill Richardson Copy Share Image
“She’s like poetry. Like prose and love letters and lyrics, cascading down the center of a page.” — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme— why are they no help to me now I want to make something imagined, not recalled?” — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Unhappie Verse, the witnesse of my unhappie state, Make thy selfe fluttring wings of thy fast flying Thought — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
“ At Night Love said, "Wake still and think of me," Sleep, "Close your eyes till break of day," But Dreams came… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“You smile and draw me near and whisper, "Do as dreamers do." I lean to you and whisper in your ear, "I… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
I write a lot. I used to write a lot of poetry when I was younger, write for my school newspapers. Also… — Cakes da killa Copy Share Image
“If I should get lost in all the chaos of the world, pull your butterly net and catch me in the beauty… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets… — James Parton Copy Share Image
