With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
“Daniel was twenty-three, a year younger than I was, and though he hadn’t yet published a book of poems he seemed to… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
We play a beat for 15, 20 seconds and know if we want to get on it. When we record a verse,… — Takeoff Copy Share Image
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order,… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our… — Catullus Copy Share Image
The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Some of my favorite poets had a tremendous sense of whimsy, so it's a writing style I guess I admire. — Jewel Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!” — Dona Mayoora Copy Share Image
The Language of Poetry may have many Tongues but her Kiss is Everlasting — Adrian Ernesto Cepeda Poet Copy Share Image
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Shall I tell you our secret? We are charming thieves who steal hearts and never fail because we are the friends of… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“And when we describe it as I shall do, it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift. To imagine is… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
How happy is the little Stone That rambles in the Road alone, And doesn't care about Careers And Exigencies never fears -- (...) — Mayma Copy Share Image
“I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring - I wrote my very… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“To survive as a human being is possible only through love. And, when Thanatos is ascendant, the instinct must be to reach… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“If I could I would nail these hands to the edges of stars. I would sacrifice this body to the sky hoping… — Rudy Francisco Copy Share Image
“My wishes,’ continued the poet, ‘are as follows. Firstly, may Valdo Marx, the troubadour of Cidaris, die of apoplexy as soon as… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
The piety of the Hebrew prophets purges their grossness. The circumcision is an example of the power of poetry to raise the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I read the Koran or hear it read, the images and the poetry, the sound of the language is very inspiring. — Yasmine Hamdan Copy Share Image
