Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die. — Maurice Saatchi Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedy that can befall a poet is to be praised by being misunderstood. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“She tells everyone she's taken. Yet her heart whispers: he's taking too long.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and… — Kacey Musgraves Copy Share Image
“You collide with destiny caught up in the mystery of walking the halls of a mind that's only inclined to recognize &… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in… — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
“How do poems grow? They begin deep down in the pit of the soul as a seedling of a thought …” — Nanette L. Avery Copy Share Image
the rest of my days I spend wandering: wondering what, anyway, was that sticky infusion, that rank flavor of blood, that poetry,… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
“Fruition- Think of writing as a harvest. You till the ground. Plant. Water. Wait. Apple trees take years to bear fruit. Harvest.… — Keelie Breanna Copy Share Image
“I'll gladly settle for amnesia if I had to live in a world where I couldn't remember how much you mean to… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“The whole world goes on and on about love. Poets spend their lives writing about it. Everyone thinks it's the most wonderful… — Mark A. Roeder Copy Share Image
“The heart contains passion but the imagination alone contains poetry,’ says Charles Baudelaire. This too was the lesson that Theophile Gautier, most… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I'm not a poet, but I was in the poetry program. And I'm also not much of a nonfiction writer, at least… — John D'Agata Copy Share Image
“Why did Baudelaire — why does anyone — write poetry, in the teeth of all the evidence that one wants you to… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words… — David Daiches Copy Share Image
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
“The distinctive features of the world's civilisations are not simply and solely the giraffe and the city of Rome, as the children… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
Hiroshima”, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: “But in Hiroshima, some people… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“Beauty can be born out of not only love, but also pain and other motivations.” — Following Whispers Copy Share Image
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“My house burned down But anyway, it was after The flower petals had already fallen” — Tachibana Higuchi Copy Share Image
“Read a nice poem or watch the sunrise, both are the same thing!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“Do not awaken galaxies inside of someone if you are not even fond of stars.” — Lucy Quin Copy Share Image
A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
