“What a cruel irony it is, that we get to choose our thoughts but not our feelings.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“... pain has been with him since birth - the universe's gift to a poet ...” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks hes the Lord of all Creation — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
A poet writes his words into breath the oxygen moulds a relentless force stronger than death. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“do not know which to prefer, / The beauty of inflections / Or the beauty of innuendos, / The blackbird whistling / Or just after.” — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“there have been so many times i have seen a man wanting to weep but instead beat his heart until it was… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example)… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“IMPROVIDENCE The other lives I might have led All now might as well be Dead. Survived by no one. Barren, without issue… — John Tottenham Copy Share Image
“Dylan [Thomas] I knew before and after he became famous. He was splendid, rapacious, demanding as a young man. To much has… — John Pudney Copy Share Image
“Once through this ruined city did I pass I espied a lonely bird on a bough and asked ‘What knowest thou of… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
“It's corny, but I think poems are echoes of the voices in your head and from your past. Your sisters, your father,… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“I want to make of your life a monument For the days you lingered in sadness With high towers and wide gardens… — Emmanuelle Soni-Dessaigne Copy Share Image
Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Richard Lee calculated that a Bushman child will be carried a distance of 4,900 miles before he begins to walk on his… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
For him in vain the envious seasons roll, Who bears eternal summer in his soul. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all. — Petra Haden Copy Share Image
My love is a thousand French poets puking black blood on your Cure CD collection. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I may not write poetry in Telugu but I need to get the nuances right. — Arvind Swami Copy Share Image
I don't write poems to melt your heart. I write them, so our hearts can melt together. — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
James McMurtry is a true Americana poet - actually he is a poet regardless of genre — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
“What would your shoes say about the things you do everyday?” — Sherley Mondesir-Prescott Copy Share Image
![“Dylan [Thomas] I knew before and after he became famous. He was splendid, rapacious, demanding as a young man. To much has been written about him for me to add to the legend. As that legend began to grow in his lifetime I learned to separate him from his poetry, to find him in person increasingly…” quote by John Pudney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba6/john-pudney-79886_autobiography_dylan-thomas-i-knew-before-and-after-he_2108098.jpg)
