“Am I still a hero if the only person I save is myself? Am I still a villain if the only person… — B. Damani Copy Share Image
“If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.” — John Keats Copy Share Image
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,'… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Books on the bookshelves And stacked on the floor Books kept in baskets And propped by the door Books in neat piles… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
“Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We , and there is a paradox about personal love.… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
All great questions must be raised by great voices, and the greatest voice is the voice of the people - speaking out… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“There were so many different moods and impressions that he wished to express in verse. He felt them within him. He tried… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“Yangi, a philosopher, art historian and poet, had evolved a theory of why some objects - pots, baskets, cloth made by unknown… — Edmund de Waal Copy Share Image
As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful… — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“I know: in a dream, the tea could stay forever the exact right drinking temperature & I never want that. I want… — Chen Chen Copy Share Image
You have to be careful about over-politicizing the utterances of people of colour because, oftentimes, there's poetry that seeks to go beyond… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
“In the nineteenth century, poetry was a bestselling genre rather than the cultish phenomenon it is now.” — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech...For… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“Brushing a girl’s hair behind her ear once a day will solve more problems than all those therapists and drugs.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched, And touched nothing that he did not adorn. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
There are cases where you can say a lot more in a hook than you can by making things more complex in… — Chance The Rapper Copy Share Image
It is the gift of all poets to find the commonplace astonishing, and the astonishing quite natural. — Margery Sharp Copy Share Image
“Language, a great poem in and of itself, is all around us. We live in the lap of enormous wonder, but how… — Mark Edmundson Copy Share Image
I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think,… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“We co-exist in forced comfort in fear of starting over in a world where doing the work is the only way we… — Sharita a Sims Copy Share Image
Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“The editor wants something a little more oblique, a little less opaque. Let the reader watch you / dissolve.” — Aaron Kent Copy Share Image
“When I usually outshine the light, I look for evanescence. The ending to my resplendence is much more divine, when it's singing… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“I do not fear the night When I know that today I am bathed in a light It cannot be stolen away” — Holly Ducarte Copy Share Image
“You with your light meter and relaxed itinerary, Let not our naive labours have been in vain!” — Derek Mahon Copy Share Image
Painting or poetry is made as one makes love - a total embrace, prudence thrown to the winds, nothing held back. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
“If the poets offered us nothing more than another make-believe world, they would be mere sellers of drugs or, at best, sweetmeats.” — Robert Lynd Copy Share Image
I roll 'em faster than a train and I don't wanna stop. Niggas say 'Need a verse,' they 50 grand a pop. — Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
Most true musicians don't do it for the money, they do it because they love it. When I did slam poetry, it… — Jake Holmes Copy Share Image
