No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired… — Plato Copy Share Image
“So, the darkness hid the little girl in herself, to protect her from the wolves with the human mask on their faces.” — Sweara Ahmed Copy Share Image
A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I have sought love because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a poets work in clandestine chemistry and there is no ethic other than poethics!” — Dona Mayoora Copy Share Image
The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
It should be of the pleasure of a poem itself to tell how it can. The figure a poem makes. It begins… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“With my guitar, I could write my own stories, my own poems, and my own destiny. No one could take away the… — Christine Zolendz Copy Share Image
“Begin. Keep on beginning. Nibble on everything. Take a hike. Teach yourself to whistle. Lie. The older you get the more they'll… — Ellen Kort Copy Share Image
“I am a black woman. Don't look beyond me. Don't see through me. Look me in the eye. Hold my gaze. Listen… — Janet Autherine Copy Share Image
“Cloudy, cloudy is the stuff of stones,” wrote the poet Richard Wilbur, and even in the atomic era it was hard to… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“It is not true that faith, as a Victorian poet said, "puts out the eye of light"; without it there would be… — A.E. Taylor Copy Share Image
If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“Call me obsessed, color me consumed I’ve always been the type to notice The smell of a rose in bloom, But let… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“A poem is not an expression, nor it is an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is Is… — Hayden Carruth Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Bertolucci is extraordinary in his ability to perceive, he's a poet...he is very easy to work for. — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
Honey, check it out, you got me mesmerized with your black hair and your fat-ass thighs. Street poetry is my everyday but… — A Tribe Called Quest Copy Share Image
“I am more than good enough To accomplish everything I can be, I will wake up today The history could have been… — Priscilla Koranteng Copy Share Image
“The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it ticks.” — Odo Simon Agbo Copy Share Image
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't claim to be someone that knows every verse in the Bible. I wish I did. I truly do. It just… — Elisabeth Hasselbeck Copy Share Image
“The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure… — Gérard de Nerval Copy Share Image
Indians have a huge misconception when it comes to rap. It isn't just about heavy beats; it is about poetry. — Badshah Copy Share Image
Everything is personal - the poems and the crime novels. I have never been involved in any murders, but there are strong… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
“We each bring our own unique beauty to the world, and how blessed we are to have the freedom to find that… — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
I know when I go to a poetry reading, I feel purged, exulted. You let the poet guide you through some kind… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Prose is prose because of what it includes; poetry is poetry because of what it leaves out. — Marvin Bell Copy Share Image
“This is where I belong, burning in these flames. For everything I have done wrong, I know I am to blame.” — Atarah L. Poling Copy Share Image
“No reprimand in the mirror Slow walk to Liberia Slow dance across the Sahara Slow unraveling of gray matter” — Mellon Black Copy Share Image
Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
What philosophy worthy of the name has truly been able to avoid the link between poem and theorem? — Michel Serres Copy Share Image
I always write stories, and I write poems, too. I just never sell them to anybody, but I write them. They're good,… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
“The world has never favored the experimental life. It despises poets, fanatics, prophets and lovers.” — Randolph Bourne Copy Share Image
“We are silent haters communicating through memories and tears We are silent lovers communicating through poetry and lyrics” — Shannon Lynette Copy Share Image
