Queen Latifah was writing poetry. Maybe Latifah's 'Ladies First' and Angelou's 'Phenomenal Woman' are the same thing, a generation apart. — Jason Reynolds Copy Share Image
“grappling with some small understanding of this place, this time, we're in" my poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
What science cannot declare, art can suggest; what art suggests silently, poetry speaks aloud; but what poetry fails to explain in words,… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“So for now, I will miss you like I’ll never see you again, And the next time I see you, I will… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word .… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Poetry is for me Eucharistic. You take someone else's suffering into your body, their passion comes into your body, and in doing… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“all which isn't singing is merely talking and all talking's talking to oneself (whether that oneself be sought or seeking master or… — ee cummings Copy Share Image
“Some of the most passionately erotic poets have been the most self-contained in their daily lives.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like… — Joy Kogawa Copy Share Image
If we were to see Western landay poems, we'd see them out of disenfranchised populations, maybe out of the legacy of slavery.… — Eliza Griswold Copy Share Image
I was teaching myself notes from three and then by seven I'd figured out how to play some chords, and at school… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by… — Diane Paulus Copy Share Image
Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
“Mallarmé described this agony as a battle that took place on God's "boney wing". "I struggled with that creature of ancient and… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
