He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet. — John Keble Copy Share Image
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities. — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the icon-stasis on which a desire for aesthetic ecstasy illustrates itself endlessly.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
“In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Loving you I thought I'll forget every pain, i'll now live without, yesterday's blames. Poor heart thought love is the only gain,… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with… — Niels Bohr Copy Share Image
“We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet’s difference from his predecessors, especially his immediate predecessors; we endeavour to find something that can… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Don't start on the tortured poet crap, okay? You have no idea what it's like to deal with you guys. You just… — Sayer Adams Copy Share Image
I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“A poem is a windy city, has broad shoulders and insistent industry, barrels into your brain, sticking its steam-filled, swarmy head into… — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
Opera contains music that reflects a culture of poetry and aesthetic. Spirituals are no different. What separates a spiritual for me is… — Measha Brueggergosman Copy Share Image
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Books connect us readers to what we cannot see but imagine, an intangible sort of wonder and magic.” — Stephanie Morales Copy Share Image
The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
My mother is a poet/novelist, and my father was a pianist and cook. Both artists who colored my personality and brain in… — Dove Cameron Copy Share Image
The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides… — Phineas Fletcher Copy Share Image
Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Later, we'll look up what was recorded in our history about yours in faraway lands. Then we'll ask ourselves, "Was Andalusia here… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey… — Eyvind Johnson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps pondering words is also a form of seeking justice. If a monologue can invite a chorus, then perhaps it can speak… — Duo Duo Copy Share Image
“In this world things are beautiful only because they are not quite seen, or not perfectly understood. Poetry is precious chiefly because… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“O my Homunculus, I am ill. I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling. From the poem "Cut", 24 October 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. — Samuel Prout Copy Share Image
“Many would have disliked to live, if possessed of the peculiar features of Arthur Jermyn, but he had been a poet and… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Friends are like poems, you may never fully understand them, but you will always love them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
The headmaster asked to read one of my poems at some celebration or other when I was about 10. When I look… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
