“Look upward to him Look to him for everything Look to him for answers Look to him for a listening ear” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Sugar cane reach up to God And every baby crying Shame the blanket of my night And all my days are dying” — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have to open… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
“Her skin smells of vintage books and pale moonlight, exotic things, forbidden loves and rainy nights.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll be way too late.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Broken bones and skinned knees, this game is not for the weak. One ball, one goal, shoot, score! Soccer makes me whole. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We are all a little broken, looking for something whole to hang on to. But sometimes, what seems whole is even more… — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“Nick and the Candlestick I am a miner. The light burns blue. Waxy stalactites Drip and thicken, tears The earthen womb Exudes… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Teaching English is (as professorial jobs go) unusually labor-intensive and draining. To do it well, you have to spend a lot of… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“At school some learning by heart was compulsory, though not irksome. But this intake was out-distanced many times, as it always is… — Patrick Leigh Fermor Copy Share Image
“I still don't know how to work out a poem. A poem needs understanding through the senses. The point of diving into… — John Keats Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was… — C. C. H. Pounder Copy Share Image
“The assignment was to fall in love. The details were up to you. The second part was to include in the poem… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Rainer Maria Rilke was admittedly not a Dockers tagger, but a sort of European equivalent: a German poet - in many respects,… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people. — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
“Lifes like a painters palette, just when you've got everything worked out the colours change” — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems.… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way of always paying attention to the world for me; a way of letting the world stick to me… — Mike Young Copy Share Image
You know, one of my favorite movies that inspired me and got me started was 'Dead Poet's Society.' — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
“The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The Black mother within each of us - the poet - whispers… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I don't consider myself just a rapper or just a singer. I'm a music producer, lyricist. I'm a poet as well, and… — Yo Yo Honey Singh Copy Share Image
I started a PhD in English at the University of Chicago because I loved poetry-which I now realize is like saying I… — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
“Choose a poem that speaks to you. Choose a poem that will help you speak to someone else.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I wondered if I was just the sum of my brain scan, little dots clustered in my frontal lobe. Is that where… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Only one is a wanderer. And when she was sad, she'd go into the streets to be with people.” — Ralph Angel Copy Share Image
Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is as much difference between good poetry and fine verses, as between the smell of a flower-garden and of a perfumer's… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“Only the poet or the saint can water an asphalt pavement in the confident anticipation that lilies will reward his labour.” — Somerset maugham Copy Share Image
He who creates three to five haiku poems during a lifetime is a haiku poet. He who attains to completes ten is… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and… — Maurice Bejart Copy Share Image
“Hay una estrella mas abierta que la palabra 'amapola'? Is there a star more wide open than the word 'poppy"?” — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
A poet's job is to find a name for everything: to be a fearless finder of the names of things. — Jane Kenyon Copy Share Image
“And when I die bury me upside down so the whole world can Kiss my ass Open my mouth Pull my tongue… — Lourd Ernest H. de Veyra Copy Share Image
In my case, performance is part of the medium. Sometimes I feel that it's my main medium, and that the presentation of… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“It's a showy habit I've got," I say. "To be always quoting poetry and stuff. Some of us use our brains, and… — Barbara Trapido Copy Share Image
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