Remember technology does not make good work. You can still write a poem on a brown paper bag, and haiku is just… — James Turrell Copy Share Image
“If happiness left scars on our bodies, we would never forget about all the glorious moments we’ve been blessed with.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I love the simple poetry of theater, where you can stand in a spotlight on a stage and wrap a coat around… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
A sentence only expressing one's emotions towards an individual is not a quote but a lack of poetry — Juju Copy Share Image
You can make poems out of anger as well as tenderness. You can make poetry out of anything. It can be the… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“With one perfect kiss on one perfect English summer afternoon, we understand the meaning of all the colors of every rainbow, forevermore.” — Hunter S. Jones Copy Share Image
Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I don’t bother with rhyme. Rarely Are two trees the same, one beside the other. I think and write like flowers have… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Why there isn't any drama in my life So I'll crawl on the cottonfield with a fife Why to have a dream… — Nabarun Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
“You write poetry?" Klaus asked. He had read a lot about poets but had never met one. "Just a little bit," Isadora… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“I like masculine aesthetics. But I also write, make art, have written poetry, and like feminine aesthetics as well. I am probably… — Angel Millar Copy Share Image
“I often wonder what she's thinking," says Ed, still gazing up at her. "That's quite an intriguing expression she has." "I often… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“The next day, he read to me a freshly composed dirge in which the circumstances of his wife’s death and burial were… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
...the best figurative poetry speaks not to the frivolous intellect, but (if anything does) straight to the heart; and does it better… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
“He had to remind himself that the work of a surgeon is poetry of a kind, in which blood is the meaning… — Kathleen Winter Copy Share Image
“You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.” — Rumi Copy Share Image
Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self-contained entities, the… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“She dances under a glistening golden sky Dangerous and wild! Her hair smells of fire and ashes, while her eyes are full… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“like god's stray eyelashes the stars are falling—more light! more! god has no time to make a wish all he can do… — Valzhyna Mort Copy Share Image
I loved everything. I read everything. Art and poetry and literature and trash and sci fi. I didn't know what I would… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
“Did you know that you can be killed by a benign tumor? Imagine that news headline: Native American poet killed by oxymoron.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word… Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's so — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I think if you put something in a file that says "war poems" or "love poems" that you already restrict the way… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the '60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it. — Sonia Sanchez Copy Share Image
Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry. — Alice Fulton Copy Share Image
My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Poetry seems especially like nothing else so much as itself. Poetry is not like, it is the very lining of the inner… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Cry out in the wilderness with a voice that's not heard. Speak boldly in Christ though you won't say a word.” — R'chelle Cyrus Copy Share Image
Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” eloquently captures the inherent paradox in living: every choice for contains within it all of… — Kathleen Adams Copy Share Image
You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
There IS a difference between poetry and prose! Poems should be sonically charged and new to the ear. — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
