“Drop by drop rain slaps the banana leaves, Praise whoever sketched this desolate scene: the lush, dark canopies of the gnarled trees,… — Ho Xuan Huong Copy Share Image
Increasingly I think of poetry as a theatre of voices, not as coming from a single "I" or from any one position.… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“The poet is a shaman of words & sounds, praying linguistically over each while blessing the poetic whole.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
“...the best poems were like little vessels that carry messages that can’t be transported in any other way; miniature worlds like tiny… — Jonathan Hull Copy Share Image
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“one doesn't even think of the liver and if the liver doesn't think of us, that's fine.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Poets must first ponder themselves and learn to see the beauty within them to allow the beauty to spill out of them… — Jeffrey G. Duarte Copy Share Image
“ Desert Pools I love too much; I am a river Surging with spring that seeks the sea, I am too generous… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
You go to a Springsteen show, and half of the people are there to party and forget about their cares, and they're… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
“The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame [...] The moth takes off again, and we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“The heart of a man is no heart at all If his heart is not loved by a women. The heart of… — colleen hoover Copy Share Image
How I love to wake up and know that your mine, I cant help but to think that your one of a… — Ana Copy Share Image
I fell in love with poetry through storytelling, so my poetry tends to be fairly narrative. I like characters, I like having… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Kretanje je duša svega što drhti. Započinje tako da se prvo dogodi trenutak onima koji žive trenutak, a onda se, onima koji… — Kemal Mujičić Artnam Copy Share Image
There is some reason to believe that when a man does not write his poetry it escapes by other vents through him,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
MARRIAGE, Is a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the rest of the book is prose; — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
I published only in academic journals in philosophy until I was in my 40s, but I had been writing fiction and poetry… — Cheryl Mendelson Copy Share Image
Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“That's old Twoflower, Rincewind thought. It’s not that he doesn’t appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Beauty is so rare a th— Sing a new song Real Music A busted flush. A pain in the eyebrows. A Visiting… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“If you love peanut butter pie, you are either Dolly Parton or someone who loves her.” — Kate Lebo Copy Share Image
Every poem is a coat of arms. It must be deciphered. How much blood, how many tears in exchange for these axes,… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Hi Clara. I thought you would need someone to walk with today, so here I am.” Sorin, her friend that lived in… — Paige Ray Copy Share Image
“Sonnets to Write Before I Sleep (The Sonnet) When I finished my first 1000 sonnets, I felt, now I shall take it… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I’m not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. I’ve seen a chunk… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“Hello," Life says, "Remember me? We started out together here When you were just a bundle Of innocent amazement. Remember how you… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
“To be a true poet is to become God. I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,'… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“I don't want perfect I want something real. Something that makes me feel.” — N.R.Hart Copy Share Image
He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his… — Subramanya Bharathi Copy Share Image
Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“No one knows, at sight a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it. Likewise a friend of Bloughram's… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
![“The poets say some moths will do anything out of love for a flame [...] The moth takes off again, and we both step back, because he's circling at eye level now and seems to have lost rudder control, smacking into the wall on each round. He circles lower and lower, spinning around the candle in…” quote by Mohsin Hamid](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/401/mohsin-hamid-798_fire_the-poets-say-some-moths-will-do-anythin_3223528.jpg)
![“Beauty is so rare a th— Sing a new song Real Music A busted flush. A pain in the eyebrows. A Visiting card — from 15 False Propositions Against God [1958]” quote by Jack Spicer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/54c/jack-spicer-32006_beauty_beauty-is-so-rare-a-th-sing-a-new-song-r_3225331.jpg)
