“...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Her eyes the glowworm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
“I didn't know the demons that walked across your memory. They came from the dust when you were at peace in your… — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
“Not songs of loyalty alone are these, But songs of insurrection also, For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through… — Gary Reilly Copy Share Image
“Has not one of the poets said that a noble friend is the best gift and a noble enemy the next best?” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A long poem is a test of invention which I take to be the Polar star of poetry, as fancy is the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
“The shoes always tell the story,' said the shoe poet. 'Not always,' I countered. 'Yes, always. Your boots, they are expensive, well… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
“How, I wondered, could you regain a poetical frame of mind at times like this? I came to the conclusion that it… — Sōseki Natsume Copy Share Image
“Only when a system behaves in a sufficiently random way may the difference between past and future, and therefore irreversibility, enter into… — Ilya Prigogine Copy Share Image
“And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully! Smoothed by long fingers, Asleep … tired … or it malingers, Stretched on on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the word poetry, you'll probably get beaten up.… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“If life is a poem, be the poet. If life is a story, be the author. If life is an adventure, be… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
Juicy J was always one of my favorites. For one, he was a producer and I just used to love how he… — Mike Will Made It Copy Share Image
“The River', a poem from 'Profound Vers-A-Tales': Your perception of my exterior may not match what lies beneath the surface.” — Kamil Ali Copy Share Image
Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry... to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart... — John Berger Copy Share Image
“I’ve always liked that Galway Kinnell poem. ‘Wait, for now. Distrust everything, if you have to. But trust the hours. Haven’t they… — Brittany Cavallaro Copy Share Image
The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“And then I met a woman, now comes the funny part; with eyes that petrified my brain and sunk into my heart.” — Hugh Antoine D'Arcy Copy Share Image
Us na kaha ya tara sara roona maray leya he to ta ……...jan…… aakhir wo jan he gaya mari muhabat k sheedat… — Anab Rafiq Copy Share Image
Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the other hand, poetry sinks and swoons under a moderate… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image… — Enya Copy Share Image
For five hundred years after Walther's death - until Goethe - no German lyric poet was his equal. — Walther von der Vogelweide Copy Share Image
“Such hungry desperation in a single kiss when it's enamored in love and bathed in bliss.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“Today I want to leave the world I want to leave the pain Leave the heartache I know where it is going… — April Nichole Copy Share Image
Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“Sublime wonders lie in store, I am shown a regal residence; a mighty kingdom, an empire with more grandeur than before ...” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash. — Fady Joudah Copy Share Image
