One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth. — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
“A fairy tale becomes one dream of a reality when a tale has been told by a poet in a dream.” — Petra Hermans Copy Share Image
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“For what is the point of having something lovely if you never share it? It would be like having a poem, a… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Magic is when you live your life the way you didn’t picture it and leave nothing behind.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Love is an act of will, both an intention and an action. “Let us not love with words or tongue but with… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
The other day, when my 4-year-old saw a flowering tree and said, "Daddy, it's raining petals," that was poetry that just melted… — Brendan Fraser Copy Share Image
“The fact that a good poem will never wholly submit to explanation is not its deficiency but its very life. One lives… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“Moon, that against the lintel of the west Your forehead lean until the gate be swung, Longing to leave the world and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To know if someone can speak offensively or politely, don’t give him poem to recite; don’t give him a song to sing.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Then one evening he reached the last chapter, and then the last page, the last verse. And there it was! That unforgivable… — Jonas Jonasson Copy Share Image
Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“oxygen Everything needs it: bone, muscles, and even, while it calls the earth its home, the soul. So the merciful, noisy machine… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The thirteenth-century Sufi poet Rumi is said to have written, “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“ When We Two Parted When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted To sever for years, Pale grew thy… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“Yoga is an exact science in the form of poetry when we measure the flow of neurotransmitters in the brain.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
There's a wonderful family called Stein: There's Gert and there's Ep and there's Ein. Gert's poems are bunk, Ep's statues are junk,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
“Some of the dead are too useful for sympathy The past we own exists on stone and white paper.” — Janet McAdams Copy Share Image
Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“...loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“That sadness that you do not speak of, that haunts you in the ache of midnight. Give it to me. I want… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
“But he never forgot how once by not knowing time, He escaped into the clockless land of ever, Where time hides tick-less… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A lazy summer's day and a long, lost love. Can a poet ask for anything more than a broken heart ordained from… — douglas laurent Copy Share Image
“So it's off with the shellsuit and on with the Armanis, Bring out the champagne and the caviar sarnies” — Roger McGough Copy Share Image
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Do not worry about your contradictions - Persephone is both floral maiden and queen of death. You, too, can be both.” — Nichole McElhaney Copy Share Image
“She has learned to love. To fear. To hate. And then to love again. Through it all, she writes.” ~Once Upon A… — Kimberly Kinrade Copy Share Image
The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right… — Hetty King Copy Share Image
Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“I touched curiosity, I kissed sin, I felt regret, And I was forgiven. But life won't let me forget.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
“I didn't know who to believe but one thing I do know: when a man is living many claim relationships that are… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
“A single poem, alone can turn tides scatter galaxies and burst forth with rivers from paradise.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me-… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist,… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
