But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves? — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
“my happy is a high fever that will break, my happy is as hollow as a pin-pricked egg” — Sabrina Benaim Copy Share Image
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
From the very beginning, I wanted to be the best, whether it was sports or poetry. — Myles Garrett Copy Share Image
“Everything here is a small offense and not of value as art or confession. It is not a whim. It is an… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
“In this way the insurrection began. Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
“The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend upon it for their daily bread, and the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“One of the things I tell the writers with whom I work is, man, when you finish a draft of a poem,… — Andre Dubus III Copy Share Image
“It is the poets, artists, and musicians that will carry us through the pandemic attacks into a new reality. They are the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Darwin, landing in Brazil in 1832, had a similar reaction, colored by his reading of his predecessor." Humboldt's glorious descriptions are &… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature… — John Drane Copy Share Image
The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Still In the fall, I believe again in poetry if nothing else it is a movement of the mind. Summers ball together… — Jaakko A. Ahokas Copy Share Image
The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.” — Allen Grossman Copy Share Image
I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
“The truth is the object of our lust But the light is still so very dim…” — Andrea Barbosa Copy Share Image
“lean in to kiss me in all the places where the ache is the most special.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“If the poems please you more than my lips, I will never give you another kiss.” — Juan Ramón Jiménez Copy Share Image
“True poetry is the fragrance of the heart in the house of peace.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
I think all poetry is accessible in a certain sense if you spend enough time with it. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry. — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
