The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.” — Jill Telford Copy Share Image
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“So Mr. Pizarsky had been a poet? That was how he’d said it: “I was a poet." As if the poet had… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the… — Edgar Allen Poe Copy Share Image
“...But...to sing, to dream, to smile, to walk, to be alone, be free, with a voice that stirs and an eye that… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The… — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
You've often heard me say - perhaps too often - that poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
My feeling is that most political poetry is preaching to the choir, and that the people who are going to make the… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“His heart was now beating rapidly. He wanted to embrace her, cover her with kisses, caress her hair, touch her breast, stroke… — Andrew M. Greeley Copy Share Image
“With each kiss that we shared we experienced the meaning of love. With the passing glances of passion we surrendered our hearts… — Anthony F. Rando Copy Share Image
For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.” — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range” — Mpho Leteng Copy Share Image
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of people in this world who want to be miserable: poets and method actors.” — Steve Kaplan Copy Share Image
My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness. — George W. Romney Copy Share Image
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
“You said we can't happen, but darling, we started happening the very first day we met.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Verse is vibin with the aura more important imported from my heart distorted portions get recorded for mass absorption — C-DASH Copy Share Image
“He offered his love ... she could not bother, She gives her love to the other! The other!” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Receio que a poesia é pior que o sexo tântrico: não mexe nem sai de cima. I'm afraid that poetry is worse… — Victor Eustáquio Copy Share Image
“If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.” — Lise Arin Copy Share Image
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet. But a plan and a series of unfortunate events saw those dreams dash… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
“The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd… — Beth Kephart Copy Share Image
“Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
