Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. — Thomas Harrison Copy Share Image
I then carefully searched through the pages until I was able to find the verse that was crystal clear... It read: "Rejoice… — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
“With women poets we look at or into, but not up at, sacred things; we unlearn submission.” — Alicia Ostriker Copy Share Image
“Is it that important? Wouldn’t it be more important to teach the least powerful? To help them make the most of what… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been… — James Payn Copy Share Image
Love is like the stars, shine in the sky. They give way to the light, and love gives to the heart. Love… — Serdyuk Oksana Copy Share Image
Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, can match the fierce, the unutterable pain, he feels, who night and day, devoid… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
“Let us remember...that in the end we go to poetry for one reason, so that we might more fully inhabit our lives… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“[We] all need more than anything else to know human nature, to know the needs of the human soul; and they will… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“I am sore wounded but not slain I will lay me down and bleed a while And then rise up to fight… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
“Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“These bones I carry were borrowed from women much stronger than I. Know that when you need them, you can borrow mine.” — Nichole McElhaney Copy Share Image
I read a poem once, about a girl who had a crush on a guy that died. She imagined him up in… — Peyton Sawyer Copy Share Image
The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
“What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
For not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine. Had he learned by rules of art, he would have… — Plato Copy Share Image
The only nice poets I've ever met were bad poets, and a bad poet is not a poet at all - ergo,… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
What distinguishes a mathematical model from, say, a poem, a song, a portrait or any other kind of "model," is that the… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“There was a sound you could smell / like you were inhaling tomorrow.” — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
Already known as one of America’s best and wittiest poets, William Trowbridge has, in Ship of Fool, found the perfect vessel to… — Charles Harper Webb Copy Share Image
NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“I contemplate the impossible and achieve madness. This is my blessing. This is my curse. My heaven, my hell.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I have said before that the music is the words and the words are the music It is all there for you… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
“I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
“Love, as the poets so often painted it, was just bald lust wearing a pompous wig. He believed true love was more… — Josiah Bancroft Copy Share Image
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