The most exhilarating for the writer and the reader, are gift-things-poems which arrive on their own energy, poems that in William Shakespeare's… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Even though we've written epic poems and made incredible films about love, I still don't think anyone can understand what it is,… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
“…And my heart opened like a flower under sky, its petals of desire, its stamens of dreams…” — Federico García Lorca Copy Share Image
It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us,… — Sue Halpern Copy Share Image
The tradition of Russian literature is also an eastern tradition of learning poetry and prose by heart. — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
“I want my life to be the greatest story. My very existence will be the greatest poem. Watch me burn. Love always,… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics… — Marcus Mumford Copy Share Image
And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted… — John Milton Copy Share Image
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation: those of the politician, the salesman… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Here the phenomenologist has nothing in common with the literary critic who, as has frequently been noted, judges a work that he… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
John's legacy? His bravery. When he had the power, he used it. He really wanted peace on Earth, and John's lyrics, well,… — Astrid Kirchherr Copy Share Image
“How do your poems start out?” “They start as a lump in the throat,” she said. “Isn’t that normally just a cocktail… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“We shall not sip from the same glass, No water for us, or sweet wine; We’ll not embrace at morning, Not gaze… — Anna Ahkmatova Copy Share Image
“As artists, poets, healers, teachers, keepers of the sacred law, philosophers, astrologers, etc., their influence was extensive. A” — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
Let's be honest - Bill Murray was onto something when he laughed at Andie MacDowell's degree in 19th century French poetry in… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The idea is to take the most ordinary things and make them extraordinary, as Gerard Manley Hopkins does in his poems. — Alfonso A. Ossorio Copy Share Image
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Poetry is worship...Stretching my soul, opening my heart and touching every part of my being. Poetry is worship to me! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious,… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
The collective love for music and poetry and just the brotherhood of sound. And it's still kind of flowing through me and… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“in a slapfight with Jesus my face bleeds because no one cut their fingernails back then” — Daniel Bailey Copy Share Image
Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media,” I said, meaninglessly.” — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“Streets paved with opal sadness, Lead me counterclockwise, to pockets of joy, And jazz.” — Bob Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Had we but World enough, and Time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To… — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Must always try to be out there Getting everything out there Take what is inside yourself And place it out there.” — Initially NO Copy Share Image
It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry -That is… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“As the river that flows freely, your mind drives me to look at the cages that I have built around me.” — J.WOLF Copy Share Image
I started with poetry because it was direct, immediate, and short. It was the ecstasy of striking matches in the dark. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Good style in prose is always hostage to the precision, speed, and laconic intensity of poetic diction. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done,… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
“She found herself over a long and treacherous road and the more treacherous the road became, the more of herself she found.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin;… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
While pensive poets painful vigils keep, Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men. — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
