The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Beauty makes one lose one's head. Poetry is born of this decapitation — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“But is this not what poetry must do? To say the nothing that cannot be said?” — John Crowley Copy Share Image
Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition. — Eli Khamarov Copy Share Image
“...in my dream the shadings of your soul are the dark tincture of rain...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Cut my life into pizzas. this is my plastic fork. oven baking, no breathing, dont give a fuck if its carbs that… — Catherine Spann Copy Share Image
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images. — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
“nothing is lifeless when the moon writes its screed on the silvern sand silence -From the poem:"The Universe In Blossom” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years… — Jules Massenet Copy Share Image
Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack. — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Haleine contre haleine, échauffe-moi la vie, Mille et mille baisers donne-moi je te prie, Amour veut tout sans nombre, amour n’a point… — Pierre de Ronsard Copy Share Image
Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here,… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The way I mainly use the Internet is keeping in touch with poets that live far away. My main interest is contemporary… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the universe works in a really weird way. You hate the people who love you, and you love the people who… — Altruistic Copy Share Image
“Once I dated a woman I only liked 43%. So I only listened to 43% of what she said. Only told the… — jeffrey mcdaniel Copy Share Image
“when you're young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting alone in the closet can fire your bones; when you're old… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Laiva on lastattu kuulla meri on lastattu laivoilla maa on lastattu merellä ja keulaan kiinnitetty. Kuu laskee unien metsät kuu valaa rantojen… — Hannu Kankaanpää Copy Share Image
“Come. For the sun has crept down in its cave; its warm red breath has blown away.” — Gertrud Kolmar Copy Share Image
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry. — Theresa Villiers Copy Share Image
To me, seeing a really great comedian is a bit like watching a musician or a poet. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
“Use love as the only instrument to question the world around you.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
