He that works and does some Poem, not he that merely says one, is worthy of the name of Poet. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Adorn ritual; decorate shrines of love, hope, tranquility. Be significant. Arrive deliberate. . .” — Cathleen Margaret Copy Share Image
The poetry of heroism appeals irresitably to those who don't go to a war, and even more so to those whom the… — Louis Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality. — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
“also, the oldest notion still in vogue is that if you can’t understand a poem then it almost certainly is a good… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The only nice poets I've ever met were bad poets, and a bad poet is not a poet at all - ergo,… — Richard Burton Copy Share Image
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, I have placed you in my hall Where I wander every day. Echo beauty, and you’ll stay.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Heres a poem, about the feelings I had. the feelings inside of me, that never seemed bad. yet here I am, looking… — Brandon Wagner Copy Share Image
There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
18th century opera is packed with emotion, but contains not a trace of kitsch. Only with the 'thees' and 'thous' of Victorian… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
To a Mistress Dying Lover. YOUR beauty, ripe and calm and fresh As eastern summers are, Must now, forsaking time and flesh,… — William Davenant Copy Share Image
“The poetry of life, the inner side of nature, rises near the surface to meet the eyes of the man who makes.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Why is the feeling of insecurity so prevalent in this field? Because the actor is such a dependent person on other people.… — Akshaye Khanna Copy Share Image
“In a world of weeds, she was a wildflower. In a world of prose, her voice was poetry, In a world of… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“(I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life, marvelous so marvelous like eating cold olives at 3… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Creativity has nothing to do with any activity in particular - with painting, poetry, dancing, singing. It has nothing to do with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief? — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“I'm colored, I'm scientist, I'm poet, I'm polyglot - coming from zero money, I won the world with words. Try and get… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a genius can inspire you but only… — Anthony Anaxagorou Copy Share Image
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at… — Philip Dunne Copy Share Image
“Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER.” — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
“...The verses of Byron, Keats or Poe are real whether they are in bootleg form or not. You can still read them… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
What I like about prose poems is that they seem to make people uncomfortable - people want to define them, justify them,… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For me, poetry has no point in existing if it's not to be a prompt or aid to political and ethical change. — John Kinsella Copy Share Image
Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
My biggest influence is Tupac. He was a poet, and listening to Tupac is what inspired me to start rapping. — Chanel West Coast Copy Share Image
You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games. — Yoko Taro Copy Share Image
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem. — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
“An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“I am sorry this became, a poem I beg you, please do not think as blame Trust me as you trust god… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be very happy if a poet read what I had written and said, 'What a peculiar thing to say about… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
