Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
“the best and worst critics I had was in the Marine Corps, If you can share poetry to a bunch of opinionated… — Vincent Breit Copy Share Image
“. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along,… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
I always wrote poems when I was a little girl, and I loved hip hop music, and I kind of just started… — Chanel West Coast Copy Share Image
Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not… — Martial Copy Share Image
“As long as the sole ruler and disposer of the universe, the nous , remained excluded from artistic activity, things were mixed… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“If the incision of our words amounts to nothing but a feeling, a slow motion, it will still cut a better swath… — C.D. Wright Copy Share Image
With a heart that is dark, Like the Feathers of a Raven, Everything hangsin the low light of a dying spark, Like… — Timothy Ashmore Copy Share Image
“Alas, I was unable to transcend the simple human fact that whatever spiritual solace I might find, whatever lithophanic eternities might be… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“From the shoulders, slowly a pair of wings unfolded, wings made of rainbows, of light upon water, of poetry. Calvin fell to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Everyone is born a poet - a person discovering the way words sound and work, caring and delighting in words. I just… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
“One million fifty-one thousand and two hundred minutes That's approximatley how many minutes I've loved you It's how many times i've thought… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save” (Zeph. 3:17). This was the verse that initially brought the… — Jim Reimann Copy Share Image
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“හද ළදල්ලකි වර්ණ සිතුවම් පතන Heart is a leaf bud wishing for colorful drawings (Translated by Himali N. Liyanage)” — Shasika Amali Munasinghe Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial… — Harley King Copy Share Image
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“My mind is heaven My eyes are the sun and the moon My awareness shines like the morning star.” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful. — Bobby Green Copy Share Image
“If it doesn't sound insane, I would only talk about you and the only word which would come out of my mouth,… — Masood Azam Copy Share Image
“Love’s language starts, stops, starts; the right words flowing or clotting in the heart.” — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“I'm one that will cause people to scratch their heads in wonderment in search of their hollow hearts and look in their… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
“It is untrue that bravery can be measured by a lack of fear. It takes guts to tremble. It takes tremble to… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“Suicide is career gold for the poet. Sadly, the poet isn’t around to reap any benefits from it.” — Jim Behrle Copy Share Image
“Evil is not good's absence but gravity's everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.” — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“The still waters Wrap my lips, Eyes, nose and ears, A clear Cellophane I cannot crack.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
“His fangs sank deep into my heart. He made me his. He possessed me like a demon and loved me like his… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
