“She no longer think that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
Into the day as by dream I swim to the music of nourished meaning. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets. — Adam Zagajewski Copy Share Image
“Dismantle the sun, pour away the ocean and sweep up the woods: For nothing now can ever come to any good…” The… — Lori Ryan Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to pass from pleasure to work. Accordingly more poems have been swallowed up by sorrow than ever happiness… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I was so used to doing art that my fingers were like albino spiders. So it was just natural for me to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Consider, O Lord, how You sit atop the sky; like a man in a glass bottom boat. Consider sky elsewhere; worn thin… — Cecilia Llompart Copy Share Image
I had hoped to be a poet, and for a long time I tried to write poetry. My first published pieces were… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
As I began to perform - songs, poems, sketches or conjuring tricks - I began to learn what children run with and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“I beg for a moment of peace in this flicker, a moment of stopping, one moment of stillness. I beg not to… — Imants Ziedonis Copy Share Image
“I believe in reverencing anything in the life of man which has the testimony of the ages as being unexcelled, whether it… — C.B. MacDonald Copy Share Image
There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is,… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“school about it, and one of the girls said it reminded her of the Scripture in Hebrews 13 that says the bed… — Julia C. Loren Copy Share Image
You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“change is a constant machine, but not one designed by human hands. from "changeING” — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words. — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
“She was afraid of heights but she was much more afraid of never flying.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
