Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
A tailor can adapt to any medium, be it poetry, be it criticism. As a poet, he can mend, and with the… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
Only the poet has any right to be sorry for the poor, if he has anything to spare when he has thought… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“the price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Usually form seems to find me in the process of writing a poem, though I have nothing against starting out with the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Color is the language of the poets. It is astonishingly lovely. To speak it is a privilege. — Keith Crown Copy Share Image
There is neither painting, nor sculpture, nor music, nor poetry. The only truth is creation. — Umberto Boccioni Copy Share Image
“Swinburne, by the way, when a very young man, had gone to Walter Savage Landor, then a very old man, and been… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
I think, though, that perspective-awareness may follow from a kind of speaking that also came into my work more recently - the… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
It is not only my dreams, my belief is that all these dreams are yours as well. The only distinction between me… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“This isn’t a poem, it’s a 3 am conversation on your basement couch and a quiet night spent on the bench next… — Christopher Korenczuk Copy Share Image
“Blackburn thought that any band that believed it's lyrics were crucial was kidding itself. Kids out on Saturday night wanted to drink,… — Bradley Denton Copy Share Image
I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
“What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion, A shadow, a delirium, a fiction. The greatest good's but little, and this life… — Pedro Calderón de la Barca Copy Share Image
For me, a poet is someone who is 'in contact.' Someone through whom a current is passing. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“And as this creation itself is poetry, so its creators were poets; and language was the instrument of their art” — Percy Shelley Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy, false labels, can create slogans but no poems; propaganda but not life: there are no roots, there are no realities to… — Pablo Antonio Cuadra Copy Share Image
“Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of words and… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Cities and roads I have never seen Are in the background of your photos Yet, I don’t feel How faraway you are” — Shasika Amali Munasinghe Copy Share Image
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
In school I was sidelined by Tamil language teachers. But in the film industry, I got interested in Tamil poetry after reading… — Mani Ratnam Copy Share Image
A good poem is not completely a poem until it has received a critical response that grows out of the poem in… — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“Come close - let our hearts beat like one, we'll be the two that became one. Love is the rhythm of our… — J.WOLF Copy Share Image
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.] — Horace Copy Share Image
“boys don't like smart girls they like push-around-in-a-cart kinda girls target-for-their-dart kinda girls meat-for-their-shark kinda girls” — Casey Renee Kiser Copy Share Image
“I live I fight I bleed I die For love. I am Fey" ~I am Fey, a warrior’s poem by Evanaris vel… — C.L. Wilson Copy Share Image
Nothing I could ever write, nothing ever written by the greatest of Bard's, Poet's, Dreamers, could ever express, how I feel, when… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
Often poets fall into groups that exclude others, and don't pay attention to those who write in different ways. It seems so… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
I have no precise idea of who makes up my readership. I'm surprised when I discover people have read my poems at… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
“what? people exploit your gullibility? let them. remember, the more people cut off leaves of a tree, the much faster it grows.” — Pravin Gupta Copy Share Image
“When a group of people get up from a table, the table doesn’t know which way any of them will go.” — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Prose cannot compete with the economy of poetry, the ability to have a full artistic experience in a short period of time. — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Lotus a star of detachment sultry feverishness of a tawdry universe incense of rejected poems lie in the void of me a… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
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