Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Roses are red, violets are blue. God made me beautiful, what the hell happened to you? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“Well, one wearies of the Public Gardens: one wants a vacation Where trees and clouds and animals pay no notice; Away from… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Since nothing is absolute, there is no absolute silence, only an appearance of temporary peace. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Love and memory and thought and dream ~ My favorite poems have never been written in words.” — Kij Johnson Copy Share Image
“God doesn't listen to me too, but people have their suspicions. सुनता तो रब हमारी भी नहीं, पर लोगों को अल्लाह पे शक बेशक है” — Vineet Raj Kapoor Copy Share Image
“The same that oft-times hath charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam of perilous seas, in fairy lands forlorn.” — John Keats Copy Share Image
I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What was the function of poetry if not to improve the petty, cautious minds of evasive children? — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“In other words, after Winthrop has acquired all his butter firkins, food stirrers, and beer along with six dozen candles, twenty thousand… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
With 'Love Shack,' once we put that chorus in, it did have more of a song structure. Even though the verses are… — Kate Pierson Copy Share Image
“I believe in the flesh and the appetites; Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“To know how to say what others only know how to think is what makes men poets or sages; and to dare… — Elizabeth Charles Copy Share Image
In a play, certainly, the subject is of more importance than in any other work of art. Infelicity, triviality, vagueness of subject,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I thought my friends were damn fools, because they didn't know any better way of conducting their lives. Still they conformed better… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“...Yes, now the roads themselves are shattered As though they had fallen from a height, and the sky Is cracked like varnish.… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.” — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry. — Ernst Haas Copy Share Image
Lyrics is commissioned work, it is my profession. But poetry is my statement to life. — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“The words of the bards come down the centuries to us, warm with living breath.” — Pádraig Pearse Copy Share Image
A poem is an invitation to a voyage. As in life, we travel to see fresh sights. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“Jet gave the blessing from the book of poems she had given her aunt.” — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Singing has nothing to do with poetry, except as twins separated at birth. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
I like to borrow forms and quotes and use a lot of allusions, in both poetry and music. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
