It seems to me that the poet has only to perceive that which others do not perceive, to look deeper than others… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“The ravenous, rabid poet awaits the midnight moon. She’ll trick and out wit her unsuspecting lover, the beginning of a bloody swoon.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“How, in so short a time, she had passed from intoxication to disgust we will only seek to explain by supposing that… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
That is my essential reason for writing, not for fame, not to be celebrated after death, but to heighten and create life… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Poetic language features an iconic rather than a predominantly conventional relationship of form and content in which all language (and cultural) elements,… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
“Every word from Kismet’s mouth sounded like poetry spoken with the most fervent passion one could conjure up. I couldn’t understand how… — Jessica Marie Gilliland Copy Share Image
If you know what you're looking for, the illustrations might give you a tip about what is coming in that section. But… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
What mattered to Abu was the music of the sentence. 'A shadow does not belong to the object that casts it.' To… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“If we find poetry in the service station and motel, if we are drawn to the airport or train carriage, it is… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Poetry has always mattered, through human history, through all kinds of cultures, all kinds of violence and human desolation, as well as… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process… — Robert Hayden Copy Share Image
“We read every verse of Scripture lovingly and attentively, because every verse is a potential summons from God.” — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Beauty is so rare a th— Sing a new song Real Music A busted flush. A pain in the eyebrows. A Visiting… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the song of the heart, dance of the mind, and the outer expression of the inner beauty of the soul.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
I started writing poetry as a teenager in suburban Chicago out of emotional desperation. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“But many people just love to be in the midst of that poetry, to keep experiencing what’s perplexing, what’s beautiful, what’s true.” — John Timpane Copy Share Image
Let's get my incantation right: "I wish I may, I wish I might" Give earth another satellite. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction. — Steven Heighton Copy Share Image
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.] — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
You cannot find one single verse in the New Testament that calls for violence against non-believers. Jesus said to love your enemies.… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
The poetry that comes from the squaring off between and the circling is worth it, finding beauty in the dissonance. — Tool Copy Share Image
I have met with women whom I really think would like to be married to a Poem and to be given away… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“Gotta love us brown girls, munching on fat, swinging blue hips, decked out in shells and splashes, Lawdie, bringing them woo hips.” — Patricia Smith Copy Share Image
Every time you read a poem aloud to yourself in the presence of others, you are reading it into yourself and them.… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example)… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I didn't know until later, but my uncle was quite a famous bohemian in Glasgow, and he played guitar. My father was… — Donovan Copy Share Image
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's. — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive why people will always mix up my own character and opinions with those of the imaginary beings which, as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
“When air becomes breath, and cells become sentient, Words become poetry, and facts become science.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
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