It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I want to write poems that are natural, luminous, deep, spare. I dream of an art so transparent that you can look… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Rupi Kaur is an author and poet who posts the most beautiful, thought-provoking excerpts on her Instagram. — Vick Hope Copy Share Image
Till now poets were privileged to insert a certain proportion of nonsense - very far in excess of one-half of one per… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
When I write poetry, I write in torrents. I have no interest in quality or finesse, only in quantity and waste. Scribble… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
“George Abbershaw's prosaic mind quivered on the verge of poetry when he looked at her.” — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
“there's a freedom to simplicity; a love that only grow in small spaces killing yourself ever so slowly to put a smile… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless… — Jim Carroll Copy Share Image
It should be emphasized that the balagtasan also served a higher social and political function. More than mere entertainment, it enhanced the… — Virgilio S. Almario Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning… — Salomon Bochner Copy Share Image
Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“Then her face tilted up to his, and he was looking into her eyes again. He had heard of drowning in a… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For example, an author whose parents fled a war but he himself was born in the country where they fled to, and… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
“People create poetry and mustard gas. We invent gods and monsters and gods that might as well be monsters. We act with… — K.J. Charles Copy Share Image
“Bomb the world with music, pizza and poetry you idiots, not Semtex, C4 and RDX.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
...the poet, while creating anew, is likely to be in a sense restoring something old. — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
“Sufilere sohbet gerek Ahilere ahret gerek Mecnunlara Leyla gerek Bana seni gerek seni” — Yunus Emre Copy Share Image
“I am so coarse, the things the poets see Are obstinately invisible to me” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Looking for something in them that ive only found in you. Its true, its always been you — Meesha B Copy Share Image
“What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“I am too pure for you or anyone. From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
