“My Personality unfolding before you like a Swiss Army knife.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer Copy Share Image
“I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain.” — Edna St Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
I never really read Allen Ginsberg poetry, even though I have a book he gave me. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The age-old faith of lovers and poets in the power of love, stronger than death, that Finis vitae sed non amoris, is… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“I'm fond of Derek Walcott too. I could eat his poem "Love After Love." Just peel the words off the page and… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will… — Timothy L. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I have seen your darkest nights and brightest days and I want you to know that I will be here forever loving… — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“We must, therefore, never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God—whether in… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
“You carried your infant daughter in one arm, and walked with me, a child six years of age, tired, trudging beside you.… — Parnaz Foroutan Copy Share Image
One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“The first verses establish an immediate correspondence with what Revelation was later to recount about the creation of humankind: “He [God] taught… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
A lot of people think they can write poetry, and many do, because they can figure out how to line up the… — Cynthia Rylant Copy Share Image
“Outside, the meadows - dewy and golden are cloaked in summer blooms. My heart, scorching and desolate sighs and sings sad songs… — Neena H Brar Copy Share Image
The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image