... the natural world is the old river that runs through everything, and I think poets will forever fish along its shores. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Roses are red violets are blue...Stars are beautiful to look at and shine just like you do. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim… — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
“Words fail to describe what i feel anymore. Let me be numb for a while, let me be sore.” — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
“I felt miserable. When Keats felt miserable he always put on a clean shirt. But he was a poet.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“power of his poetry to minister deeply to the likes of an opium addict such as Samuel Coleridge.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Poetry challenges you. Much of its importance is that it's one of the few places left in culture that makes things difficult-it… — Dan Beachy-Quick Copy Share Image
“There’s a poetry to it, engineer’s poetry…it suggests Haverie —average, you know—certainly you have two lobes, don’t you, symmetrical about the rocket’s… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Autumn comes like a buyer of cloth, her long fingers touching, turning orange, yellow, brown. taking what she wants, stretching the bone… — Janice Mirikitani Copy Share Image
“I looked at all the trees and didn’t know what to do. A box made out of leaves. What else was in… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
“It was Plato who bridged the gap between poetry and philosophy; for, in his work, appearance, despised by his Eleatic and Sophist… — Erich Auerbach Copy Share Image
“Tony the Beat Poet says the church is like a wounded animal these days. He says we used to have power and… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The poet is like the prince of clouds Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer; Exiled on the ground in… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“It must be frustrating being a poet-or any sort of artist-and not being able to offend anyone any more.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“I'm still in love with the parts I believed to be true. All the lies that began and ended with 'I love… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this God-damn world upside down to do… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Over a hundred books, thousands of sonnets, half a thousand limericks, half a thousand free verse poems, yet I still say, I'm… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In a world of digital copies, remaining a hand-written note, a poetry lulled in an orchard of His Grace.” — Debatrayee Banerjee Copy Share Image
The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have else they will never have better. — Harriet Monroe Copy Share Image
Any fool can take a bad line out of a poem; it takes a real pro to throw out a good line. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
I feel that the task of criticizing my poetry is best left to others (i.e. critics) and would much rather have it… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You bothered yourself and changed the season. I was left behind with your awful sounds.” — Cat Alonso Copy Share Image
“Everything here is a small offense and not of value as art or confession. It is not a whim. It is an… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
For Liberal Democrats, the political choice between the hard Brexit menus offered by Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt might seem about as… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
“Gluttony and sloth, as worldly goals, were quietly usurped by avarice and lust, which, together with poetry (yes, poetry), consumed all my… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“As the poet Alexander Pope said: Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
The scripture that God used to save me was Isaiah 7.14, which today is still my favourite verse in the Bible. — Gloria Gaynor Copy Share Image
“You said one day you would come back for us The ones that believed in you The ones that asked you into… — April Nichole Copy Share Image
Na jane kya hogaya tha mujhe jo kar baithi pyar mein tujhe Na jane kya khata hogayi thi mujhse Jo mil gayi… — Mishal Copy Share Image
Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence… — John Lanchester Copy Share Image
