“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“We can hear your voice We can hear it through the songs of praise We can hear it through the birds We… — April Nichole Copy Share Image
“It is as if I knew you before we spoke Do our hearts know something we don't? Conspiring, converging without giving us… — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her… — Nizar Qabbani Copy Share Image
The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The underground went really underground. Grand Funk, and all these people man are the moderate's choice of music. Underground is Yoko Ono,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Cause I can love a poem up out of you-like my middle name is Harlem..and my fingerprints are permanent-you ain't gone wash… — Shanica Stewart Copy Share Image
“We celebrate, we create, as citizens of Shatter. We hold a bond of unending happiness. This planet, at the edge of the… — L'Poni Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
“As the poet Alexander Pope said: Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry; But where's that wiseman, that would not… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“ To Hear the Falling World Only if I move my arm a certain way, it comes back. Or the way the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed — Don McLean Copy Share Image
“O I never thought that joys would run away from boys, Or that boys would change their minds and forsake such summer… — John Clare Copy Share Image
My friend Akshay Upadhyay and I used to write poetry and read out to each other. — Pankaj Kapur Copy Share Image
First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts;… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
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