Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. — John Denham Copy Share Image
“We survive. We're Irish. We have the souls of poets. We love our misery, we delight in the beauty of strange places… — Eilis Flynn Copy Share Image
“She bid him farewell, And scrutinized his silhouette, That slowly faded in the shadows. She whispered, "Au-revoir" To the nocturnal mist.” — Ruqayya Shaheed Khan Copy Share Image
It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If we all die and become stars then I must believe that our souls live in the stars. Now I know why… — Nicola An Copy Share Image
A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding. — Susan Howe Copy Share Image
“This poem serves to remind That food, it tends to spoil Leave it in your memory Not in the fridge, in foil.” — Madeleine Blais Copy Share Image
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Wherever we walk we will make Wherever we protest we will go planting Make poems seed grass feed a child growing build… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
“The poet should even act his story with the very gestures of his personages. Given the same natural qualifications, he who feels… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Poetry of all the forms of literature I think is the most suited for the digital age and for the shorter attention… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the… — W. Bruce Cameron Copy Share Image
“I miss you, mourn for you, and walk the streets alone- often at night, beside, I fall asleep in tears, for your… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Well,” Match says, “we’re just gonna have to take care of business. That’s what my old man always told me. He always… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
“I had never met another who loved my mind more than my body. I could feel his curiosity finger-walk through my thoughts...… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“Now, there's a twisty summer storm outside, and I desire nothing but this storm to come. The calm voice on the TV… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
For poetry, more than any other art, except music, has a compelling hold upon the spiritual side of life. — Lizette Woodworth Reese Copy Share Image
“There is no human society, however isolated, that has not developed and employed poetry as a cultural practice.” — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh? — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
“How they had dreamed together, he and she... how they had planned, and laughed, and loved. They had lived for a while… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
“To toil, to think, to long, to grieve,— Is such my future fate? The morn was dreary, must the eve Be also… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“When put to the best use, poetry has not only the power to stir one’s emotions and thoughts, but also the soul… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems. — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Straight photography, following the medium, is intoxicating - trying to wrestle it into the form of a poem. — Thomas Roma Copy Share Image
“I started this chapter with some lines from T. S. Eliot’s poem “East Coker” that I’ve always loved:” — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Our spirits are connected honey. Wrapped in firsts of gnarled heartache. But I promise not to let go if you don't.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“This process is what the poet E. E. Cummings would call the moment you feel you are nobody but yourself.” — Hilaria Baldwin Copy Share Image
There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I mainly wanted non-english writing poets, because I loved the idea that I was translating translations. — Simone Muench Copy Share Image
A poem, once it's written, is meant to be read with the inner voice of the person who reads it. — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
At each moment, a poem might grow into a totally different shape. It is not so much like working in a garden.… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
