One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.” — khaled Talib Copy Share Image
“Not once or twice in our fair island-story, The path of duty was the way to glory.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“i let myself know that my life doesn't have to be over just because theirs are & i went ahead & painted… — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“she slammed the door and was gone. I looked at the closed door and at the doorknob and strangely I didn't feel… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of poets: those who feel and those who express themselves. The former are happier. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Poetry, from describing external events objectively, is becoming subjectified into a poetry of personal conscious expression. — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Poetry and I fit together. I can't imagine being without it... It is food and drink, it is all seasons, it is… — Lee Bennett Hopkins Copy Share Image
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Comme certaines musiques Le poème fait chanter le silence, Amène jusqu’à toucher Un autre silence, Encore plus silence. As certain music The… — Eugène Guillevic Copy Share Image
“On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If… — C. Day Lewis Copy Share Image
“Right words are born in courage, which results from our struggle to make sense of our various predicaments. Cheer is what words… — William Meredith Copy Share Image
A lot of poems seem, in some sense, to pull the outside world into the interior. They aren't perhaps emotion recollected in… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“You are the wild Door to my peace Because you are an honest sinner I see you as my priest You can… — Amit Howard Copy Share Image
“It's ironic, isn't it? How hope keeps us breathing just to kill us in the end.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
“Love left us long back, we just got better. You at pretending, Me at hiding.” — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
The BFI exists to celebrate all poets of world cinema, of the past and present. — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse — John Milton Copy Share Image
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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