Poetry keep her honest, these readings. Stevie could draw up Dont see this deeper than music, dont hear it but feel the… — Wale Copy Share Image
My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“At twilight nature becomes a wonderfully suggestive effect, and is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“They’ll ask you, child, what you know of suffering. They’ll ask you where it hurts the most, when the pain changes like… — Kwame Opoku-Duku Copy Share Image
“The city they are building asks you to stay; remind yourself what is worth keeping, while the lighthouse of your moan warns… — Mikl Paul Copy Share Image
That’s all you really hope for from a book – that it’s going to resonate with young people and empower them in… — Kwame Alexander Copy Share Image
Would you be a poet Before you've been to school? Ah, well! I hardly thought you So absolute a fool. — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is… — Laura Huxley Copy Share Image
The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It may very well be that we have entered another time when most poets will feel compelled to use poetry to stop… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
“They went forth to battle, but they always fell; Their eyes were fixed above the sullen shields; Nobly they fought and bravely,… — Shaemus O'Sheel Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
“Yet deep inside I know that I'm truly blessed that I was loved by someone like you. I'll always love you my… — Chimnese Davids Copy Share Image
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
“Widespread criticisms of jihad in Islam and the so-called sword verses in the Quran have unearthed for fair-minded Christians difficult questions about… — Stephen Prothero Copy Share Image
“The U.K. should begin with an F And have a C after the U, And it should end in E D Now… — Harry Whitewolf Copy Share Image
Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground. — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
'Hamilton' is, of course, closely tied to the Obamas because Lin first performed the opening number at a White House poetry jam. — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to… — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Good fiction writers and poets possess a skill that few preachers have—they know how to expose longing. But preachers know how to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
I have always loved writing and I used to pen down my thoughts, little stories and poems growing up. — Aishwarya R. Dhanush Copy Share Image
Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student. — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Being in the Sahitya Akademi, I did know quite a few poets - Jayanta Mahapatra, Sitakant Mahapatra, Sunil Gangopadhyay, to name a… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
“I wrote you this poem because i was afraid/ To come out and tell you i want to get laid.” — Jake Wizner Copy Share Image
There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics. — Eugene McCarthy Copy Share Image
I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
“Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your words. Seduce me.” — Anne Boleyn Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry and short stories. I would send them to magazines; they wouldn't get in. But short stories are how I… — Dee Rees Copy Share Image
When everything goes right a mobile is a piece of poetry that dances with the joy of life and surprise! — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
A poet sees things in two ways: First, as a child who never saw it before, and Second, as a dying man… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“I chase the wind and get lost in the clouds. I'm sweep into darkness in my search for the light.” — Sherman Kennon Copy Share Image
“sometimes the apology never comes when it is wanted and when it comes it is neither wanted nor needed - you are… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
