What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. — Asghar Farhadi Copy Share Image
“If this is my day of harvest, in what fields have I sowed the seed, and in what unremembered seasons?” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
“Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Ive always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together. — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
If we dont enjoy each others poetry, then there is nothing here. you can not sleep with someones body every night and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Please don’t make the mistake of thinking the arts and sciences are at odds with one another. That is a recent, stupid,… — Tim Minchin Copy Share Image
“A vast field opened like a blossoming tulip, flowers blooming in the rippling airs of spring. High and frothy trees hugged air… — Paul Andreas Wunderlich Copy Share Image
In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you… — Esaias Tegner Copy Share Image
Lily Brown writes with and against things in poems that are coiled up tight as springs (or snakes). A believer in the… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of… — D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson Copy Share Image
Best believe that needle hurt you Best to see these true colors Than follow one of your false virtues A little secret… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
I'm a line-maker. I think that's what makes poets different from prose-writers. That's the main way. We think, not just in sentences… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The real question should be: what makes a good political poem? The possible answers to that question are both obvious and yet… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“She's not stumbling, she's not lost. She's simply romancing her inner animal and falling in love with the wild part of her… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Words are gifts that give to us all. Packaged songs and poems waiting to be unwrapped.” — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense. — R. K. Milholland Copy Share Image
I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to explain poetry. You have to understand the poetry and figure out your own take and your relatability. — Shoojit Sircar Copy Share Image
“The sea waves stirred before me they dashed against the rocks Like a mermaid rising from its depths curled white sea foam… — Giselle V. Steele Copy Share Image
“Poetry is when emotion blooms like flowers with the petals of words and spreads the fragrance of perception.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
For a long time, I saw writing prose as chewing rocks compared to the velocities of writing poetry. — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. — Ouida Copy Share Image
The deeper the love the stronger the emotion. The stronger the emotion the greater the devotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Science has succeeded to poetry, no less in the little walks of children than with men. Is there no possibility of averting… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the most potent of all literary forms. If prose is candle light, poetry is dawn.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves,… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
As I started writing about loss and grief, I was taking what felt unmanageable and using my songwriting, my sense of poetry… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
I just love anything that's super-heightened. That feels more real to me, a more honest channel to express emotions. Like, poetry over… — Cole Escola Copy Share Image
It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
Don't saddle me with your ideals, and spare me all your guilt. For a poet with all the answers, has never yet… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
Dear one, near me, truth assessed, reborn worldwise, mind at rest. True heart sow you, God has blessed, your soul whispers, love… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
