“In the busyness of living, he is the kind of man that makes a woman pause and write romantic poetry.” — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
A poet writes his words into breath the oxygen moulds a relentless force stronger than death. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
“do not know which to prefer, / The beauty of inflections / Or the beauty of innuendos, / The blackbird whistling / Or just after.” — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“there have been so many times i have seen a man wanting to weep but instead beat his heart until it was… — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
I have spoken to many broadcasters about bringing poetry to television and they're usually not keen. — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“Distant singing is heard. Ghostly voices become audible: fragments of lectures remembered, the finely distilled wisdom and passion of seers and poets… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
The whole process of having to put the thing into the world seems so antithetical to the act of writing. Poetry is… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“Words are power. The more words you know and can recognize, use, define, understand, the more power you will have as a… — Quraysh Ali Lansana & Georgia A. Popoff Copy Share Image
To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets… — James Parton Copy Share Image
“[...] The fact is that in order to be loved and to accept love you have to get naked to the very… — Fiphie Copy Share Image
I'd photographed musicians before but this was different. Syd was very charismatic, and he had the aura of a poete maudit, which… — Mick Rock Copy Share Image
Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
“True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Our nature as sensitive beings is far too complex to break apart, re-examine and reshape in a poem. — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
I link what I do more to poetry usually because it sounds less lofty than a lot of other things. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
“There are two Souls, whose equal flow In gentle stream so calmly run, That when they part—they part?—ah no! They cannot part—those… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
I have wonderful band mates that make music that I'm forced to listen to for hours on end until I come up… — Nikki Jean Copy Share Image
I didn't study other poets and react against them. I kind of found them later and realised I was different. Quite throwaway,… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Whenever a time arises where clarity is desired, it is always wise to reflect on the sage within.” — Sereda Aleta Dailey Copy Share Image
“If I began to draw myself away from you we’d still be like two mixed colors of paint impossible to separate.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“v. It would be very odd if two poets were killed in the same way... May on Lake Asquam, by Jean Giraudoux” — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a poet. I grew up with poetic influences - what I know from my background is the… — Donovan Copy Share Image
“ This is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Ideally, I'd like to write poetry for public performances and prose for a different, more contemplative kind of consumption. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
That metre itself forms an essential part of all true poetry is a principle which not even the assertions of an Aristotle… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“I get the romance. Show me the plan. Poetry's easy; it's the parent-teacher conferences that are hard.” — The Good Wife Copy Share Image
the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love and Death? What has great music or poetry ever been about, but those twin forces that undo a man?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery. — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
“I wanted his hands at my back and his lips speaking poems on mine and our journey to each other to be… — Allie Condie Copy Share Image
Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“we might as well live life as if -as the poet Rumi put it-everything is rigged in our favor” — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“I have a dark soul, that doesn't mean I don't love the sun, rainbows and things that emphasize the light.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
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