We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth. — George Carey Copy Share Image
A poet can't afford to be aloof. The tools of his trade are the people he bumps up against. — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some… — Charles Ives Copy Share Image
“Because sometimes you need a biologist, and sometimes you need a poet. Sometimes you need a scientist, and sometimes you need a… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“I am filled with the thought that there's nothing more thrilling than all those things in your future, waiting to be known.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it… — Dan Bejar Copy Share Image
“With my polished Verses as a trellis of pure metal Studded cunningly with rhymes of crystal, I shall make for your head… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There are poems that are never written, that simply move across the mind like skywriting on a still day: slowly the first… — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
The poetry I love is written with someone's voice and I believe its proper culmination is to be read with someone's voice.… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse,… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
“All writers recognize this surge of striking; in its energies the objects of the world are made new, alchemized by their passage… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Sport in itself has this power. If you are a poet or a singer, people gravitate. I may not be in the… — Viv Richards Copy Share Image
They may have been ugly. They may have been evil. But when it came to poetry in motion, the Things had all… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Love withers but never dies. Its tendrils are embedded on fecund soil awaiting the nourishing spring to make it sprout once more.” — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem… — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Poetry is an act of distillation. It takes contingency samples, is selective. It telescopes time. It focuses what most often floods past… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
Every man or woman is a potential poet or artist. Everyone has the capacity to bring to their work the dignity, purposefulness,… — Laurence Boldt Copy Share Image
“If I were to choose between the power of writing a poem and the ecstasy of a poem unwritten, I would choose… — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
In particular, a really big inspiration for me, creatively, is Lana Del Rey and her music. I find her to have that… — Esther Povitsky Copy Share Image
Truck drivers stop me and say, 'What is the poem for the day?' or 'Give me a poem for my girl.' I… — Nipsey Russell Copy Share Image
Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“your smile. is the ultimate golden dream. all the poems in the world are waking up from.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“Or like a poet woo the Moon, Riding an armchair for my steed, And with a flashing pen harpoon Terrific metaphors of… — Roy Campbell Copy Share Image
Radio is such a perfect medium for the transmission of poetry, primarily because there just is the voice, there's no visual distraction. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
“In the sentences of poetry prosaic words should serve only as detours to a greater poetic expression, both abstruse & plain.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
a poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it. — Gwen Harwood Copy Share Image
Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one. — Vanna Bonta Copy Share Image
“Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me, Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….” — Sappho Copy Share Image
“Foggy nights bring some comfort. He can get lost in the mist and there is no one to stare or question.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
