It's ridiculous and painful to use the Arabic of an Iraqi poet who lived centuries ago to describe what we in Iraq… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
His Highness was always confident in his statements, especially about what he viewed for the first time. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Poets, the best of them, are a very chameleonic race; they take the colour not only of what they feed on, but… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“When power narrows the areas of a man's concerns, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence” — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
“We are supposed to do something with these/Damn hearts of ours, and we are meant to love and be loved.” — Rob Bignell Copy Share Image
“over the centuries Dante has been variously "constructed" - as lover, statesman, neo-Platonist, proto-Protestant, Romantic visionary, Byronic hero, Pre-Raphaelite, father of his… — Peter S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the language of the gods. I love poems myself. But poetry is not only in poems; it is diffused everywhere,… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I think I love and reverence all arts equally, only putting my own just above the others; because in it I recognize… — Charlotte Saunders Cushman Copy Share Image
“On August 18, 1941, Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr. of the Royal Canadian Air Force took a new airplane, the Spitfire Mk… — Ryan W. Quinn Copy Share Image
“I wrote her story because she wanted to live forever and I loved her far more with every word, too much! Even… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Do Not Wait For Me (By Mimi Mata) Do not wait for me... My craving sent me elsewhere I yearn for some… — Mimi Mata (Aspiring Writer Copy Share Image
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means. — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
When Im all alone these words just flow out of my chest. Turn em into poems, they worship, Im the best. — J Cole Copy Share Image
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination — David Allan Coe Copy Share Image
When you have a secret crush , you become nothing but a poet ask me I 've 18 poems secret adimeyer was… — Sikhwetha Maanda Stanley Copy Share Image
You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
“He was a maniac utterly devoted to loving me, and I loved him in return, unapologetically.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return… — Dorothea Lasky Copy Share Image
I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to… — Dirk Nowitzki Copy Share Image
I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does. — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn only regret.” — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“She wasn't chaos. She was more of a slow burn that caught in your heart... and then you had no choice but… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ… — Pierre de Ronsard Copy Share Image
It was through poetry I learned just to appreciate my own voice and to not think of my voice in terms of… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain… — Rembrandt Copy Share Image
The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry. — Van Cliburn Copy Share Image
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“DETCHANT (n.) That part of a hymn (usually a few notes at the end of a verse) where the tune goes so… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
My idea is to bring happiness, respect, vision. poetry, surrealism and magic [to design]. — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
It always has been and forever will be impossible for slavery or any kind or form of injustice to produce a great… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before it glows, not afterwards. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image