Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“Poetry speaks slowly. My mother told me that. We are usually too much in a hurry.” — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there. — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
“Because anyone who has ever sat in lotus for more than a few seconds knows it takes a hell of a lot… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“Put a person like this with four developing children and you're gonna need more than love poems and ice sculpture to stay… — Joshua Braff Copy Share Image
By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“a woman will tell you every home she has ever inhabited has been broken into starting with her body” — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
“...it was a misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Poetry is music in words; and music is poetry in sound: both excellent sauce, but those have lived and died poor, who… — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
“Power within A wiser woman kin I cannot give her The proper word She is worth so much more She is the… — Maddy Kobar Copy Share Image
“the phantom of the man-who-would-understand, the lost brother, the twin --- for him did we leave our mothers, deny our sisters, over… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Ireland is a land of poets and legends, of dreamers and rebels. All of these have music woven through and around them.… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“Perhaps you have understood something of what I wished to have given you. That is, serenity, in every aspect of your work,… — Balasa Cantacuzinos Copy Share Image
I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don't know how… — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
“ Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
Mysteries do not lose their poetry when solved. Quite the contrary; the solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle and,… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Writing consist of everything. whether your writing is of riddles, rimes, prose, trivial, general, of thought, or of feeling. indiscretions you've done… — Michael Stuckey Copy Share Image
“Whether they are poets, gardeners, fathers, priestesses, bank managers or a whole host of other ways of working in the world; the… — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
“The moon is my fear. The sun is my heart afire. The stars, my love songs.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
If you like my poems let them walk in the evening, a little behind you — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“Life is an affair of mystery; shared with companions of music, dance and poetry.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
Once, I was a poet, and, like all poets, I spent too long in the Kingdom of Dreams. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping. — Shura Copy Share Image
“There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
