One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person’s life. — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
I have never been in a band. But in my grand day of cabaret at Les Deux Cafes, I was doing this… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
You're always believing ahead of your evidence. What was the evidence I could write a poem? I just believed it. The most… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“I've almost seen him. And Poet," she says, and I want tot say, You have seen him and you didn't want him.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“The decapitation of Medusa by the Greek hero Perseus, assisted by the patriarchalized Goddess Athena, was painted on pottery, carved as bas… — Joan Marler Copy Share Image
“there was something musical about Ronan when he swore, a careful and loving precision to the way he fit the words together,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; Who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the… — Bessie Anderson Stanley Copy Share Image
“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings… — Ben Shapiro Copy Share Image
“It isn’t possible to love and to part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality . . . the manner by which texts poems and novels respond to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Love, that is first and last of all things made, The light that has the living world for shade, The spirit that… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played. — Mattie Stepanek Copy Share Image
“There will always a glimmer in those who have been through the dark.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“No more can this Angel teach her, Yet, this guiding wing shall not forsake ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
I have always written poetry but I have never applied it to songwriting. — Janine Turner Copy Share Image
“The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, & Issa, edited by Robert Hass.” — Michael Wallace Copy Share Image
Try making a poem as if it were a table, clear and solid, standing there outside you. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“How…will I ever truly depict you? You’re perfect, my writing isn’t.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
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