When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“All paths lead to death, our premature sacrifice for future spawn (from Elixir)” — Bryan Murphy Copy Share Image
Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“The illusion reflected within the mirror whispered a door of returning daydreams...” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“She wasn't chaos. She was more of a slow burn that caught in your heart... and then you had no choice but… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means. — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
When Im all alone these words just flow out of my chest. Turn em into poems, they worship, Im the best. — J Cole Copy Share Image
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination — David Allan Coe Copy Share Image
You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
When you have a secret crush , you become nothing but a poet ask me I 've 18 poems secret adimeyer was… — Sikhwetha Maanda Stanley Copy Share Image
The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“kindness is the foundation for the body that you call home but there are moments when you begin to question whether or… — Tesia Lewis Copy Share Image
“Transformations All night he ran, his body air, But that was in another year. Lately the answered shape of his laughter, The… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
“ The Taxi When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“New Rome will be destroyed By the attacks of new vandals. God always remains silent.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Don't analyze her love. Just turn the green light on and move into her soul.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Poetry unlocks that unseen world and that unheard language to the real world.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. — K'naan Copy Share Image
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I wanna make growing old with you the last poem I ever have to write” — Michael Biondi Copy Share Image
