The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
“Because anyone who has ever sat in lotus for more than a few seconds knows it takes a hell of a lot… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“In this way the insurrection began. Death was everywhere. Death was everything. Career. Desire. Dream. Poetry. Love. Youth itself. Dying became just… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very… — Jack Gleeson Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in… — Grace Cavalieri Copy Share Image
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“Strategy for a Marathon I will start when the gun goes off. I will run for five miles. Feeling good, I will… — Marnie Mueller Copy Share Image
I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“...The old bottles lay dreaming of new wine. I picked up my breast, which had gone out. By other lights I go… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity,… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
“Poetry that tames language into tight structures and yet manages to move us comes off as a feat, paralleling ballet or athletic… — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
“There is no time, only I am. There is no society, only I am. There is no law, only I am. There… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I've often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it's been doing to my poetry when I'm not looking, but I… — George Murray Copy Share Image
For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a… — Julia Alvarez Copy Share Image
“a woman will tell you every home she has ever inhabited has been broken into starting with her body” — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
By writing... in the language of his society, a poet takes a large step toward it. It is society's job to meet… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“Put a person like this with four developing children and you're gonna need more than love poems and ice sculpture to stay… — Joshua Braff Copy Share Image
“Metaphor is a slippery eel, if it wasn't for its shock I'd stick to the easy catch of prose.” — David Joseph Cribbin Copy Share Image
Poetry is the lens we use to interrogate the history we stand on and the future we stand for. — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
“Poetry… it consumed Sappho’s young years, it nourished Goethe’s old age. Drug, the Greeks called it, both poison and medicine.” — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“They think the way to be a poet is to wear funny clothes and write sideways on the page.” — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Polyphonic prose is a kind of free verse, except that it is still freer. Polyphonic makes full use of cadence, rime, alliteration,… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
“False love, desire, and beauty frail, adieu! Dead is the root whence all these fancies grew.” — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Wamiqa means the goddess of wind; my dad is a poet and writer in Punjabi and Gabbi is his pseudonym. — Wamiqa Gabbi Copy Share Image
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“Even stars are formed by loss. You know astronomers believe that galaxies are forged out of huge collapsing stars--- hollow, imploding on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry operates by hints and dark suggestions. It is full of secrets and hidden formulae, like a witch's brew. — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
“The purity of a revolution can last a fortnight. That is why a poet, the revolutionary of the soul, limits himself to… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“Once our souls collided and caught fire, there was no turning back. Love is a collision of two stars -- it's as… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“You touched my flawed life so gently with love burning upward in dark steady flame burning me, burning me into healing.” — Christy Brown Copy Share Image
“She fondled, cradled, pacified and hushed the wounded heart to slumber by constantly saying, It’s over. He’s not coming back.” — Ruqayya Shaheed Khan Copy Share Image
While most know the young Stalin was a seminarian, few realize that he was also a Georgian patriot, a published romantic poet. — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
Color, which is the poet's wealth, is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“...and it made his heart shake to hear these things in the street or bus or dime store, the uninventable poetry, inside… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
