Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
“I give the command and adhere to the impulses arising from the same power that balances the stars and spins the earth… — Rhys Blanco Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“For all but the sliver of poetry fans, over the past forty years popular song lyrics have been the nation’s poetry.” — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“In everyone’s life, there is a line between reality and dreams; but poets don’t have that line.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
The revolt of the poet is invariably conservative at its roots. … Not politically conservative, but imaginatively conservative, with a profound regard… — Cid Corman Copy Share Image
If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or… — kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“If you’re going to love a poet you should know this. Our words are our truths. Our blood hums with verse. We… — Jeanette LeBlanc Copy Share Image
“I am the girl who spends hours huddled in a corner of a library, trying to find what you love the most… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
“…We love each other like this!… On my bed all in white, So white and vaporous like the flower of innocence, Like… — Delmira Agustini Copy Share Image
“On Pleasure Pleasure is a freedom-song, But it is not freedom. It is the blossoming of your desires, But it is not… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“No Child of Yours I saw a child hide in the corner So I went and asked her name She was so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“I feel like shredded paper thrown to the wind, each poet took a piece of me and wrote a word or phrase...” — Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco Copy Share Image
“And fourthly, what need hardly be said twice, That good but rarely came from good advice.” — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
The real challenge of writing songs isn't just writing a bunch of parts - like a verse, chorus, verse - but making… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
I believe God is a poet; every religion in our history was made of poems and songs, and not a few of… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I didn't start off as a journalist; I started off as a poet. My ambition was to practise poetry. Then I found… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Annant is Pickwick paperless, the hunter of wisdom and due to Lovelace heart, a budding poet-ass.” — Aporva Kala Copy Share Image
Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Everyday begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our dreams… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance. — Horace Copy Share Image
I could never begin a poem: 'When I am dead' In case it tempted Fate, and Fate gave way. — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
“Poetry, in its own way, is a carrier of the sparks, because it too comes out of silence, seeking connection with unseen… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish’d, not to shine in use! As tho’ to breathe… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me,… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“But love of one kind will never duplicate itself. Love has its variety...which possibly makes it as a great as all the… — Dan Skinner Copy Share Image
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