In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything. — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“I've almost seen him. And Poet," she says, and I want tot say, You have seen him and you didn't want him.” — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“What was she left with but ashes and darkness once the light of the flame went out? The smell of smoke lingered… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Neither men, nor gods, nor booksellers' shelves permit ordinary poets to exist. [Lat., Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere… — Horace Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“I went down not long ago to the Mad River, under the willows I knelt and drank from that crumpled flow, call… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Fishing books , lit by emotion recollected in tranquility, are like poetry. .. . We do not think of them as books… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably… — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
“In two of your poems you called that central Passage of womanhood a wound, Instead of a curtain guarding a silken Trail… — Michele Wolf Copy Share Image
Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading… — Rosellen Brown Copy Share Image
Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in… — Brian Patten Copy Share Image
As we produce work that becomes pure poetry, we impact and influence our teammates, we wow our suppliers, we inspire customers and… — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
“The amount of her madness depends on the amount of her love. If she is crazy, frantic, insane with you, then simply… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
There is nothing more poetic than the truth. He who does not see poetry in it will always be a poor versifier… — Multatuli Copy Share Image
I've done a number of readings at poetry lounges in Vancouver and Los Angeles. I've compiled a book of poetry that's completed,… — Corin Nemec Copy Share Image
His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
“Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
“We are supposed to do something with these/Damn hearts of ours, and we are meant to love and be loved.” — Rob Bignell Copy Share Image
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
When Im all alone these words just flow out of my chest. Turn em into poems, they worship, Im the best. — J Cole Copy Share Image
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means. — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return… — Dorothea Lasky Copy Share Image
I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to… — Dirk Nowitzki Copy Share Image
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination — David Allan Coe Copy Share Image
You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
When you have a secret crush , you become nothing but a poet ask me I 've 18 poems secret adimeyer was… — Sikhwetha Maanda Stanley Copy Share Image
“He was a maniac utterly devoted to loving me, and I loved him in return, unapologetically.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.” — Lisa See Copy Share Image
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
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