“Spirituality is the poetry of our experience. Science is the gauge of our reality. Together, they create the essence of our humanity.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies. — Jose Bergamin Copy Share Image
I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of… — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
It gives a man character as a poet to have a daily contact with a job. I doubt whether I've lost a… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“When I am old I shall become an itinerant poet and wear a straw hat and never worry about love again. Tuesday,” — Zen Cho Copy Share Image
An experienced reader uses the poem as an agent of inquiry. This makes poetry very exciting, unstable, and interactive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. — Michael Bruce Copy Share Image
The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“He had even tried the violin a few years earlier. Anything to switch talents, but there was no escape. The compulsion was… — Romain Gary Copy Share Image
“Besides, it’s not a favor,” Simon added, “it’s a poetry slam around the block from your house. It’s not like I’m inviting… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Yes; the poem goes something like this: 'Bamboo without mind, yet sends thoughts soaring among clouds. Standing on the lone mountain, quiet,… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t sure whether he was a grad student, poet, actor, stripper, or brilliant combination of all those things. But the man… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“The stars stare back In that deep, Soul-shattering blackness And from the depths of existence Comes a cruel, icy wind Raising the… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
A true poem is distinguished not so much by a felicitous expression, or any thought it suggests, as by the atmosphere which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Suddenly I remembered a line in a poem by Vaughan: 'There is in God (some say) a deep but dazzling darkness' – and… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
“What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the… — W.H. Davies Copy Share Image
“Just enough angry, just enough indignant, just enough the-world-will-never-know-how-ridiculously-awesome-I-am. Just enough poet.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“I am committed by trade to urging people to attend carefully to the verbal surfaces of what they read. Much of the… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Sometimes you finish the poem, and that last piece clicks in place. Sometimes the poem is finished with you. — Frederick Seidel Copy Share Image
I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much.… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do. — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city,… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
“Crying 'bout getting old—Patricia, you need to get up off what God gave you. Say a prayer and start slinging. Cue hips.” — Patricia Smith Copy Share Image
“If I wrote the word flower, would it still grow like a flower? If I wrote a poem concerning a river, would… — Zakariya Amataya Copy Share Image
La poe sie veutquelque chose d'e norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous,… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You smile and draw me near and whisper, "Do as dreamers do." I lean to you and whisper in your ear, "I… — Shaun Hick Copy Share Image
“There are few things in this life more bamboo-under-fingernails than good poetry read aloud badly-unless it is bad poetry read aloud badly.” — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
“Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
“you cross the field in the snow leaving tracks in perfect whiteness ...disturbing my placid universe...marking the landscape within me ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious... Poetry is a religion without hope.” — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
“From key signature to coda, from downbeat to the sound of life's final fermata, our pasts set the tone for all that… — Jamie A. Hughes Copy Share Image
“I am dead to the world’s tumult, And rest in a quiet realm! I live alone in my heaven, In my love,… — Friedrich Rückert Copy Share Image
My advice to my younger self would have been, "Chill. Concentrate on the poems. Everything else will work itself out." — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair Of not being able to express With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me. — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
