“The poet Kabir asks, "What is God?" Then he answers his own question: "God is the breath inside the breath.” — Gregory Boyle Copy Share Image
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I like to joke that I started writing long poems out the anxiety over ending and starting poems. It just seemed easier… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“I can look beyond the clouds to feel your love the sun will rise again to end the darkness” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
“I was thinking of you while I was traveling toward the moon. People think that I am dead, but I think I… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
My time nearly done, my sands run low, my verse nearly complete; I smile, proud of the man I dared to be,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,--is, in form as well… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Isn't it odd that pastors, who are responsible for interpreting the Scriptures, so much of which come in the form of poetry… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“I have said that in one respect my mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Up to the age… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“In the forestlichen writhes and assembles itself into signs to light my path through the deep dark north shadow; and I emerge… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“sometimes paraphrase our own Scriptures. For example, the verse above is modeled on Galatians 3:28, which says, “There is no longer Jew… — Kristen Stieffel Copy Share Image
“We must therefore entertain the hypothesis that there is an important connection between being 'dialectical' and dreaming, just as there is between… — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
“Certain poems and lines of poetry seem as solid and miraculous to me as church altars or the coronation of queens must… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Yet you stand, too ashamed to run, too fearful to embrace. God I see so much of what I love in that… — Suenammi Richards Copy Share Image
The Poet makes himself a seer through a long, vast and painstaking derangement of all the senses — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
“Every day begins like a blank chalkboard, on which each one of us can write the poem of our present and our… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
When the end comes, dark and hungry I'll be alone, love When the end comes, black and starving I'll say good-bye, love.-from… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its… — Brad Leithauser Copy Share Image
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Everything affects my poetry, every day something happens that changes me forever. I’m susceptible and plastic, thin-skinned and moody. — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
In general, the Arab world is an artistic hub that has such a variety, whether it be music, film, poetry. — Ramy Youssef Copy Share Image
Like a great poet, nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. There are simply a sun, flowers, water, and love. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
“The Word of God is truly divine. Every book, every chapter, every verse, and every line is a sign of God’s love… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“I photograph you every morning In a cruel attempt to capture A formal souvenir of what I love” — Susan Rich Copy Share Image
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.” — Subhan Zein Copy Share Image
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I delivered dartboards to pubs. That wasn't when I knew I wanted to be a poet, but it was when I knew… — Tim Key Copy Share Image
I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality. — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
“The Nuremberg judges added illegal hanging atrocities to violent Hitlerian racist ferocities.” — Saiom Shriver Copy Share Image
“Writers, poets and artists inspire each other. I believe they become muses for each other.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“We did not know she was sick, but she has come to the fence, walking like a woman who is balancing a… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
