“Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so. from the prose poem… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“An epic without a focus - without a single action, a coherent plot, a single terrible point to make - was just… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
“Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame… — Michael S. Harper Copy Share Image
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“One should, each day, try to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if possible, speak… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
One critic wrote . . . that my poems sounded as though they had been translated from the Hungarian. I don't know… — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of the globe reach even to us here, as to more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
“All literature is an attempt to make life real. As all of us know, even when we don’t act on what we… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“No one could say the stories were useless for as the tongue clacked five or forty fingers stitched corn was grated from… — Liz Lochhead Copy Share Image
“You angel, you have written. [...] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
By clarity I don't mean that we're always in kind of a simple area where everything is clear and comforting and understood.… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“The Story Is Always There Sometimes you don't need to speak to someone to know how they are feeling. You don't need… — Delma Pryce Copy Share Image
Thank God for the battle verses in the Bible. We go into the unknown every day of our lives, and especially every… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
“...but I spoke passionately at the rallies; inspired by phrases I had read in novels and poems, I would weave words together… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and… — Ananya Birla Copy Share Image
“What else was filmmmaking about if not a series of perfect and potent images strung together like the words of a poem?” — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“Asceticism is giving up selfish activities, as poets know, and the wise declare renunciation is giving up fruits of action. — Krishna.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a powerful tool; the master who uses this tool must have courage, conviction, experience and vision!” — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
What makes a poem is the discipline inherent in making a poem: trying to fit feelings in the requisite number of syllables… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“I dared fix my eyes one instant toward glory: a black point is settled in my avid eye.” — Joanna McClure Copy Share Image
In my religion, there would be no exclusive doctrine; all would be love, poetry, and doubt. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“I’m the impulse before the language, I’m the reason before the science, I’m the pulse before the poetry, I’m the kernel before… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A vida vem do éter que se condensa Mas o que mais no cosmos me entusiasma É a esfera microscópica do plasma… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
“One of Milton’s poems contains the well-known line “Look homeward, Angel, now, and melt with ruth.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
My poems getting published in Russia doesn't make me feel in any fashion, to tell you the truth. I'm not trying to… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“As for my feet, the little feet You used to call so pretty, There's one, I know, in Bedford Row, The t'other's… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
“For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who can't speak Russian will be less susceptible to Russian propaganda. But they will also be less susceptible to the poetry… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
“I don’t fear the madness that springs forth, occasionally devouring me. I’m ready to cut the crazy wide open and explore it… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“Poetry is man’s best means of perceiving most profoundly the action and the consequence of his own emotions.” — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste? Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me.” — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
Photography, painting or poetry - those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating. — Viggo Mortensen Copy Share Image
The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover. — Bruce Dickinson Copy Share Image
“You’ll go from heaven to hell. From silence to scream. From deep sleep to awakening. And by the time you finish... you… — Phoenix Moon Copy Share Image
![“You angel, you have written. [...] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just a few things remain as beacons: poetry, and you, and solitude. You see that I am extremely sentimental. Had you suspected that?” quote by Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/378/vita-sackville-west-4366_letters_you-angel-you-have-written-please-in-all_452775.jpg)
