When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“i let myself know that my life doesn't have to be over just because theirs are & i went ahead & painted… — Amanda Lovelace Copy Share Image
I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble.… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through… — Lisa Joy Copy Share Image
Today we should make poems including iron and steel And the poet should know how to lead an attack. — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“The fun part is finding which thoughts, in that crazy beehive of emotion, are the ones that mass produce the honey.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
As hurried as this poem is rest assured that our loves not. To be with you, again, forever I cant wait until… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before I was ever a poet, my father was writing poems about me, so it was a turning of the tables when… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Back Burner Put the stress on the back burner It only burns its way back Put your thoughts on the future and… — Clarissa O. Clemens Copy Share Image
“Sorry about that, guys!” he yelled. “All right. I’m Eric, and this is my homeboy Matt on the drums. My first poem… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“O how we call each other names You call me schizophrenic I call you God But we do agree on one Deluded… — Sunil Vidyarthi Copy Share Image
A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“…Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“There are days I am whole Some days I feel bruised A silhouette of verse emerges To mirror my mood And with… — Collette O'Mahony Copy Share Image
Some people have the time but they don't have time while others have time but do not have the time. — Jacques Prevert Copy Share Image
“Cut my life into pizzas. this is my plastic fork. oven baking, no breathing, dont give a fuck if its carbs that… — Catherine Spann Copy Share Image
All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images. — Rene Magritte Copy Share Image
“nothing is lifeless when the moon writes its screed on the silvern sand silence -From the poem:"The Universe In Blossom” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
To imagine is the characteristic act, not of the poet's mind, or the painter's, or the scientist's, but of the mind of… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years… — Jules Massenet Copy Share Image
“the poet I saw once... but whose words have long been in my mind, windows of invincible candles... ” — Nathalie Handal Copy Share Image
Give me a theme," the little poet cried, "And I will do my part," "'Tis not a theme you need," the world… — Richard Watson Gilder Copy Share Image
Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean… — Kendrick Lamar Copy Share Image
Science sees signs; Poetry, the thing signified. Co-author with his brother Julius Hare. — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.” — Drew Myron Copy Share Image
A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He was a great poet" They lamented. No, he was not a great poet," said Theo, "He was a good poet, he… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
The spoken word community was significant in making me want to write accessible and urgent poems. Bob Holman, in particular, was an… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“Those with wild hearts love big love fiercely love with every fiber of their feral being.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate. — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
The one thing they didn't tell you at Iowa is how hard it is to make a living writing fiction and poetry. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
