“When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over. from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton ” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“We, too, can divide ourselves, it’s true. / But only into flesh and a broken whisper. / Into flesh and poetry.” — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. — Luc Ferrari Copy Share Image
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“I have a potent degree of love that is so unwise in one world that it is wisdom in another.” — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
“He spoke to her, though, if only through his verse. One night in the banqueting hall, just before a ball, he responded… — Judith James Copy Share Image
I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I got scouted for modeling on the street. I'm such a tomboy - still am. I just never thought about modeling before,… — Anya Taylor-Joy Copy Share Image
I thought a bit of poetry might be interesting - I even write a few lines myself. I composed a short poem… — Iain Dowie Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most informative of all of the arts because everything comes down to poetry. No matter what it is we… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. —ROBERT… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“the great fortunes of our day have rarely been accumulated through the sale of the most meaningful items and services, such as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“this lightness is something created in the writing, using the linguistic tools of the poet, independent of whatever philosophical doctrine the poet… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
“But I'm a woman, and as the great poet so cleverly wrote, hell hath no fury as a woman scorned. Consider me… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“When twilight sleeps holding the night In your arms you embrace me tight Runaway hours clenched by kisses More of your love… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Everytime I try, it opens up my eyes. These verses are a chance to be remembered and reprised — Drake Copy Share Image
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale,” he whispered. The words of the poem had never seemed so fitting: Forever and ever,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
My hobbies are playing piano and guitar, pining for girls, worrying about climate change, pining for girls, and the poetry of John… — James Veitch Copy Share Image
Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more… — Rakim Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
