“You will be my thunder. I'll be your lightning. Even the heavens will rage with jealousy.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“And when next I feel the dawn’s light, I open my hand and set the butterfly free, Knowing she does not appear… — Natalie Miller Copy Share Image
“That kiss, I cannot describe. It was like a poem, a prayer, a homecoming unlooked-for. It was like dungeon walls crumbling to… — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying… — Ellen Forney Copy Share Image
I don't like poetry that doesn't give me a sense of ritual, but I don't like poetry that doesn't sound like people… — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“The poem was called “Goblin Market,” and the book whose proof pages were on the desk was titled Goblin Market and Other… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Ignorance is in relationship to content; it is not just a spirit of ignorance. In verse 21 it speaks of "the truth… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Your love is like the wind, whenever it blows it over-takes me. Caressing my heart with your hot burning compassionate love that… — Telisa McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“To paint an image and to write a poem, is to reclaim the dignity and personal joy...it is an invitation for my… — Reclaiming my Life Isabella Koldras Copy Share Image
“On Hallows Eve, we witches meet to broil and bubble tasty treats like goblin thumbs with venom dip, crisp bat wings, and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
As a guiding principle I believe that every poem must be its own sole freshly created universe, and therefore have no belief… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical,… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
“Long ago, while journeying in the east, the man had a poem sent to his friends at home: Though we are as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass by… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“The Bible says, ‘If any would not work, neither should he eat.’ Saint Paul wrote that, in Second Thessalonians, chapter three, verse… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“Life goes on in the same manner, evil wins and peace is slaughtered. Change the channel, change the view, tired of the… — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
“Poetry provides a vehicle that takes me to places that logic won't go. It is a way of understanding the incomprehensible.” — John A. Vanek Copy Share Image
“Today I introduced myself to my very own Heart, In silent agony, after all these years it bled apart.” — Ankita Singhal Copy Share Image
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
“What was hard was discovering the true life of the poem inside its technical scaffolding.” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
“He needed some sort of membrane between himself and experience, which, for him, became language.(Jeanette Winterson on T.S.Eliot)” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“Watch carefully the magic that occurs when you give a person enough comfort to just be themselves.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
I never meant to be a full-time poet: I started out as a gardener, an ideal job for a poet because your… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
“Gardens are poems Where you stroll with your hands in your pockets. (Les jardins sont des poemes Ou l'on se promene les… — Pierre Albert-Birot Copy Share Image
“level, they use this as a poor excuse to disregard the rules of the sharia. Drinking, dancing, music, poetry, and painting” — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
You can feel greatness in the ring. You can get two guys that gel together and it's just like poetry or a… — Ricky Steamboat Copy Share Image
“You fell because you were looking to fall, You fell because you’re kind. Your humans called you Daydreamer girl, but you fell… — F.K. Preston Copy Share Image
If we're gonna progress as a people we are going to realise that, as one of my favourite poets says, the other… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“If you don't look before the dusk and beyond the dawn, you won't be able to see the sun. (Soar)” — Soar Soaring-Words.com Copy Share Image
“... yes I speak a different language - the dark fire of poetry - it flutters and gutters in tune with the mood ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Myth and poetry represent a reservoir of vertical thinking, which we could also call longing and gratitude to ancestors. We need that… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image