“Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They’re so… empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet?… — Ann Demeulemeester Copy Share Image
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“I wonder if a fish's One and only wish is That other fish will never say, "This fish is sure delicious!” — Brian Rock Copy Share Image
“O love, how did you get here? --from "Nick and the Candlestick", written 29 October 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I started out wanting to write great poems, then wanting to discover true poems. Now, I want to be the poem. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“The poet advises: 'Read me. Read me again.' He does not always come away unscathed from his page, but like the poor,… — René Char Copy Share Image
If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about… — Fred Bodsworth Copy Share Image
“I do not know how it is elsewhere, but here, in this country, poetry is a healing, life-giving thing, and people have… — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they… — Joan Aiken Copy Share Image
I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Most people are trying to go digital, and trying to do different things with poetry. McSweeney's is going in the opposite direction… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. It depends on the mood of the man, whether he shall see… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He never described himself as a poet or his work as poetry. The fact that the lines do not come to the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“There are people who want to know about everything in the minutest detail, like accountants or lawyers. But show a toe sticking… — Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
“They mutilate they torment each other with silences with words as if they had another life to live they do so as… — Tadeusz Rózewicz Copy Share Image
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine- tenths of our intellectuals… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“ Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I did. And what did you want?… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that… — Malcolm Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe in magic ... There is magic in the creative faculty such as great poets and philosophers conspicuously possess, and equally… — Emanuel Lasker Copy Share Image
“Youth is as easily wasted as a fine wine consumed by a drunken man. There is no poetry in aging, and Javert… — Kelsey Brickl Copy Share Image
The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician. — Karl Weierstrass Copy Share Image
“Look for me in sleepless nights, among the stars, I’ll be your guiding star... Look for me in the moments of happiness,… — Zorica Savron Copy Share Image
I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“Everyday I go to graveyard in search of her. maybe she can come back but in the end all i find is… — seerat Copy Share Image
I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors,… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Roses are red Violets are blue He is for me, Not for you. If by any chance You try to take my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I really miss English. Going into English class and analysing a poem or book, I found that so much fun. — Ruel Copy Share Image
“I am poetry, surrounding the dreamer, Ever present, I capture the spirit, enslave the reluctant pen, and become the breath on the… — Pam Muñoz Ryan Copy Share Image
We Poets in our youth begin in gladness; But thereof come in the end despondency and madness. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
“You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know. And I may do it, if I so choose. You tell… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“ I uttered his name like a silent whisper of the falling rain - saying love is his game as the cool… — Elizabeth E. Castillo Copy Share Image
Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
