There is, in all great poets, a wisdom of humanity which is superior to any talents they exercise. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
Zeal is not of necessity religion, neither is it always of the same essence with poetry or patriotism. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
Back pushed against the wall. Hearts shattered like broken glass. The rain's dropping harder than ever like the mood(s) of Sylvia Plath. — Needa Muy Copy Share Image
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“The pain, is the only connection she has with him now. So she will hold onto it, keep the agony hidden inside… — Onur Taşkıranşkıran Copy Share Image
“You Christians studied them,” Settembrini exclaimed, “studied the classical poets and philosophers until you broke out in a sweat, attempted to make… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Boxers, with their work (their matches) and their lives represent one of the most authentic spectacles of suffering that we are allowed… — Gabriele Tinti Copy Share Image
If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice.… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I've always written. When I was in school, the only teacher who ever liked me was my creative writing teacher. I used… — Justin Townes Earle Copy Share Image
Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me… — Barbara Hamby Copy Share Image
“The poem was made not just to exist, but to speak—to be company. It was everything that was needed, when everything was… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“And so I told him how living in Japan would give him a leisure no mere tourist has, to know the rhythms… — Donna George Storey Copy Share Image
When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Personally I always feel like I could use a little more of poetry apothegmatic power in my own work but we're always… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“If you would understand a people, look at them through the eyes of the poet, the musician and the artist.” — Cynthia Pearl Maus Copy Share Image
And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
“I have neither the ability of a poet or the flourish of a dramatist. But I must admit I was floored” — Tushar Raheja Copy Share Image
A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Poems are always interested in what Ivan Illich called 'shadow work,' not least because that is no small part of their own… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it-- — Franz Wright Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Toni Morrison. I just think she's so incredible. And also Nayyirah Waheed, who's a poet. — Amandla Stenberg Copy Share Image
The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes… — Countee Cullen Copy Share Image
“It sometime takes a long time and a hard time to realize he just doesn’t deserve your you.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Souls and their lessons. Self-conscious; know thyself. Know their soul can't remain For you're not their half.” — honeste Copy Share Image
I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Poetry is the language of extremity. Poetry is a transfer of potency. You feel something potent and then you transfer it onto… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is my number one passion. I've written two novels. I've written a screenplay. I also write short stories and poetry. — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
Conversation in society is found to be on a platform so low as to exclude science, the saint, and the poet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Someone asked me when is my birthday? The poet inside me replied, "My birthday is on the last day of the year,… — Anamika Mishra Copy Share Image
“I think there is something broken in our generation, there are so many sad eyes on happy faces.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
