The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
“She was cool— the whole world seemed to spin around her in smooth jazz.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even. — Carolyn Forche Copy Share Image
Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“The River', a poem from 'Profound Vers-A-Tales': Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface.” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... — John Berger Copy Share Image
“I’ve always liked that Galway Kinnell poem. ‘Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven’t they… — Brittany Cavallaro Copy Share Image
“Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“And so the little poet poetized away his never-ending poem and even the silliest woman could poetize with him. But they couldn't… — Nescio Copy Share Image
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists,… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“In spite of all the progress we seem to have made, human emotions stay the same. Deep inside our hearts, we don’t… — Kyoichi Katayama Copy Share Image
Shy gold begins to peep through the sombre green - the wattle's wedding dress - and Spring is near. Then suddenly it… — C. J. Dennis Copy Share Image
Standing before you as the advocate of the lower races, I declare what I believe cannot be gainsaid...that just so soon and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we started reading books to Raffi, I included some Russian ones. A friend had handed down a beautiful book of Daniil… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
A work of (whatever) art can be either 'received' or 'used'. ...'Using' is inferior to 'reception' because art, if used rather than… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to France, wrote good poetry and had a natural daughter. At this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Who are you, a hundred years from today, reading my poetry with curiosity? — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“i have so much love to give, but no one ever wants it. - a cup overfilled.” — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America. — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise. — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.” — William Everson Copy Share Image
Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work. — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“A poet expresses with a few words, what a philosopher means with many.” — Stephen McDonough Copy Share Image
