As a story teller I have used characters, epic tales, poetry and rasa in my performances. — Shobana Copy Share Image
“To be alive is to be open in some way, to take in and to release. To pass through life and to… — Alyssa Skyes Copy Share Image
“You were the stray cat who wandered into my verses and finally found your way home—dumpster diving deep within yourself.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
I remember writing these terrible poems when I was, like, nine and discovered alliteration. — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And… — Vera Pavlova Copy Share Image
“My past self would've hated who I am today And I still feel that hatred in the parts of him that stayed” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“Poetry is sometimes cryptic because we don’t always want things easily understood. Painful truth is hard enough as it is, but sometimes… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
“Registration Day' by Gavin Gunhold (1899— ) Toronto Review of Poetry, 1947 On registration day at taxidermy school I distinctly saw the… — Gordon Korman Copy Share Image
“However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were.” “And so ended his affection,” said Elizabeth impatiently. “There has… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“When I was around 19 years old, working in the college library, I was talking to a friend of mine and this… — Wanda Lea Brayton Copy Share Image
“If you find yourself pulled beyond all practicality toward doing something -- writing poetry, building a business, restoring old cars, planting a… — Joan Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was a very ordinary day, the day I realised that my becoming is my life and my home and that I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
I'd advise all you songwriters out there, if you're getting into it for the business, go home and get a job digging… — Butch Hancock Copy Share Image
The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
My only verse I remember really working on was 'Mixtape,' and I took 45 minutes on that because I wanted it to… — Lil Yachty Copy Share Image
Being a poet is like having an invisible partner. It isn't easy. But you can't live without it either. Talent is only… — Selima Hill Copy Share Image
Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do. — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness. — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Reversed Thunder," as the poet George Herbert put it. "Reversed Thunder" -- the coming of judgement in response to the cry, "How… — Darrell Johnson Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is a disease spread by people who try to use other people to cure their loneliness.” — Vironika Wilde Copy Share Image
“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Every dad who loves his daughter is not going to want her to go with the penniless slacker loser poet bum, when… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
“I'm working on a poem about heartbreak that I've been working on forever (give or take). The problem is that I've never… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
“These bones I carry were borrowed from women much stronger than I. Know that when you need them, you can borrow mine.” — Nichole McElhaney Copy Share Image
“one doesn't even think of the liver and if the liver doesn't think of us, that's fine.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words… — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“ Consummation is consumption We cannot consummate our bliss and not consume All joys are cakes and vanish in eating All bliss… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Painters and poets alike have always had license to dare anything! We know that, and we both claim and allow to others… — Horace Copy Share Image
The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it. — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Master, Master Poet, Master of our silent desires, The heart of the world quivers with the throbbing of your heart, But it… — Khalil Copy Share Image
“You can only hurt a woman so many times before her fangs grow sharp, her claws scratch deep, and her eyes become… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
