I think many people love poetry who don't know they love it. People are sometimes afraid of poetry, or they've been introduced… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
“...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“We let our lives mix with our dreams like two coloured paints, until we didn't know which is what and we didn't… — Atticus poet Copy Share Image
“He wasn't like a moth attracted to her flame. No, he was like a vampire, in love with her eternal darkness.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And fled to the silence of sweet solitude.” — John Clare Copy Share Image
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat. — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The jester walked in the garden: The garden had fallen still; He bade his soul rise upward And stand on her window-sill.… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“As it turns out, craft is to poetry what invention is to imagination--not antithetical, but needless. The eye does not invent the… — Donald Revell Copy Share Image
A trouble with poetry is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the sense you get in a poem that the poet takes… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes though stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem, Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield: The worth of… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I was strong and tough enough and charming. / How else is a fat Jew lesbian poet gonna get by? / Listening… — Elana Dykewomon Copy Share Image
Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
A sound we can not hear, yet within our hearts it's as loud as thunder. It's a word we can not speak,… — Jeffery Carter Copy Share Image
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and… — Ernest Shackleton Copy Share Image
Like all art, poems are only hints and guesses that draw our attention to something larger. — Luci Shaw Copy Share Image
There are two classes of poets - the poets by education and practice, these we respect; and poets by nature, these we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If our dreams could edit the news (and sometimes our nightmares) these poems are how they'd wake us up to the urgency… — Betsy Sholl Copy Share Image
I don't want to be studied! If I write a poem and smile, that's enough. It gives me the confidence to think… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
“The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You'll be a poorer person all your life if you don't know some of the great stories and great poems. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate them.” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is somebody standing up, so to speak, and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“And then I met a woman, now comes the funny part; with eyes that petrified my brain and sunk into my heart.” — Hugh Antoine D'Arcy Copy Share Image
Us na kaha ya tara sara roona maray leya he to ta ……...jan…… aakhir wo jan he gaya mari muhabat k sheedat… — Anab Rafiq Copy Share Image
Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
