“All in tune with love and the slow world moving" from the poem - STAY from the book - RidingTheEscalator” — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“The mystic poet William Blake once wrote, “The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water and breeds reptiles of… — Anthony Robbins Copy Share Image
Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading. — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy poet. He just has this immediate… — Daniel Gillies Copy Share Image
“I think poor poetry writing skills are excused when you’re simply trying to flush out emotions.” — Katie Kiesler Copy Share Image
“It was time for me to go, to accept the dream was over and the poem exchange meant nothing; that the person… — Julie Gittus Copy Share Image
I read that poem you wrote to be on our first date and I shed tears of happiness, knowing that you meant… — Josephine Copy Share Image
“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“He sits, strong and blunt as a Celtic cross, Clearly used to silence and an armchair: Tonight the wife and children will… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“All you need is a twenty in your pocket and a bus ticket. All you need is someone on the other end… — Shinji Moon Copy Share Image
“it’s not until the third verse that “The Hanging Tree” begins to get unnerving. You realize the singer of the song is… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Confide this soul, where desolation has haunted. Where the heart has put on hold, for a particular memory. If the fire keeps… — Rexon Wilson Copy Share Image
“And all at once the heavy night Fell from my eyes and I could see, -- A drenched and dripping apple-tree, A… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
“ON A DAY LATE THAT JANUARY, I READ AGAIN “EAST Coker” by the poet T. S. Eliot, and saw something that I… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Lavender lilies all dotted with spots. Sun-yellow daffodils clustered in pots. Blue morning-glories climb trellises high. Powder-white asters like stars in the… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
One movement that I find interesting - this is not a movement in poetry necessarily, but there's a movement on a lot… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“They beg you for transparency. Yet when you give them a peek behind the curtain shrouding your hear, they run in sheer… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
It can't be a film on Kashmir and suddenly you are rolling down a mountain, singing poetry to a pretty babe. I… — Kunal Kapoor Copy Share Image
Song of Myself is a new kind of poem , which is shocked, puzzled, amused, amazed all the average readers, but it… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem. — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
“Who would one rather be? The one who desires, or the object of desire? One's answer to this question might determine if… — Lan Samantha Chang Copy Share Image
These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out. — Sara Genn Copy Share Image
I go to a lot of museums, I read a ton of poetry - anything that's a creative expression of oneself, I… — Rachelle Lefevre Copy Share Image
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours… — Dylan Walsh Copy Share Image
I cry at everything now. If I read a poem that moves me, I'm sobbing. It's like this dam's burst. I feel… — Aimee Lou Wood Copy Share Image
A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but noone poet can write verses with such… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit… — Wanda Lea Brayton Copy Share Image
“I wanted it to be you. I wanted your eyes to be locked with mine during every fear and tear experienced throughout… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I have epiphanies all the time, because I'm always thinking. I'm a thinker. I'm always writing poetry, I'm always coming to conclusions. — Chrisette Michele Copy Share Image
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes. — David Markson Copy Share Image
“Life with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, Is just our chance o’ the prize of learning… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
For I dipped into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“I could've been your everything but you didn't have the courage to love me in the way I needed” — R.H. Sin Copy Share Image
“People, like us we feel... too deeply consumed, in shadow this game of chance. Together, surviving we unending dreamers. People... like us.” — Bev Flynn Copy Share Image
Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
“One thing has led to the next in my life, but like lines of a poem. I suppose I've thrown in my… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image