I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Any fool would not be brave Who takes no heed of this verse No heroic deed or action save Any man from… — Richie Earl Copy Share Image
Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities. — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
“down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss infinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us” — E. E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“But, at the end of the day, if you ever think you were wrong about it all, I'm here where I have… — Athena Violante Copy Share Image
“Don’t I remember those rustic evenings, now buried under a thick shawl of futile memories when you and I, walked and talked… — Abhijit Sarmah Copy Share Image
I can't listen to rap music; it's not my thing. They say that they're the modern poets: of course they are, but… — Bradley Walsh Copy Share Image
I have poetic failures all the time. Many failed poems. I try not to publish those, though some have slipped into each… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Yet you could feel a vibration in the air, a sense of hastening. It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Women who focus on style over substance usually find themselves in a big fucking hole, with other men who want to fuck… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
Poetry' is what distinguishes the cubist paintings Picasso and I arrived at intuitively from the lifeless sort of painting those who followed… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
I've been writing all my life, and playing bass came later on, when I was about 26. What I recognized with poetry… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
“It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Even the simplest poem May destroy your immunity to human emotions. All poems must carry a Government warning. Words Can seriously affect… — Elma Mitchell Copy Share Image
I've been surprised to learn how many people love poetry. It's beautiful to see that people want poetry in their lives. — Peleg Top Copy Share Image
“The arts which need interpretation are the arts of time -- music and poetry -- and not the arts of space --… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
The idea of the person enters poetics where art and reality, or intentionality and circumstance, meet. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
“these hips are big hips. they need space to move around in. they don't fit into little petty places.” — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
There must of course be a relationship between translating and making poems of your own, but what it is I just don't… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“I sent my words out onto the wind to paths unseen and parts unknown in hopes people will enjoy this book of… — Charles Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm a professional and I'll do anything - a poetry reading, television, cinema, anything that allows me to act. — Peter O'Toole Copy Share Image
All those years and their moments— Crackling bacon, slamming car doors, Poems tried out on friends, Will be one more archive, One… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“The language of archaic biblical poetry has obvious connexions with the poetry of the Canaanite north.” — Angel Sáenz-Badillos Copy Share Image
“The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. --from "Kindness", written 1 February 1963” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems. — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing." — Mary C. Neal Copy Share Image
“When you're awake, all the men go and fall for you - Sleep, pretty lady, and give me a chance (From the… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are really princesses who are waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and… — Sera Beak Copy Share Image
“A versifier arranges words and rhymes into verses; a poet arranges verses and rhymes into meanings.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Some things are not always what they appear to be. Your thoughts lead you as far as the eyes can see.” — Laqueisha Malone Copy Share Image
Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
