Poets suffer occasional delusions of angelhood and find themselves condemned to express it in the bric-a-brac tongues of the human world. Lots… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really… — Phil Cooke Copy Share Image
And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Each of us as poets, as decent suffering human beings, has to find a way to run our lives that is compassionate… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
A living poem" had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others. — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Poetry makes sense of the parts of human experience that are confusing and not decodable in any other way. It makes accessible… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“You know the parlor trick. wrap your arms around your own body and from the back it looks like someone is embracing… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
“Poetry, like remonstration, could be a form of protest; and since poets were products of the Confucian education system, extravagant military adventures… — John Keay Copy Share Image
It isn't so unusual for poems to situate themselves out of doors - though they may, at the same time, be set… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
Even though novels were the love of my life, I started off writing poetry. I think because I had a knack for… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Intoxicate me with the beauty and breath of your soul. Leave such imprints on my heart that you come to me in… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“. . . Don't live in the world as if you were renting or here only for the summer, but act as… — Nahid Rachlin Copy Share Image
Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet,… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
“You have that faraway look in your eyes that makes me want to pull you into my dreams, bring you to your… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom… — Lewis Cass Copy Share Image
There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“You're every street I've ever walked. You're the tree outside my window, you're a sparrow as he flies. You're the book that… — Benjamin Alire Sáenz Copy Share Image
Sentimental poetry differs from naive poetry in that it relates the real state at which the latter stops to ideas and applies… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Mausoleum air and anguished pauses: If this production were a poem, it would be mostly white space. — Richard Corliss Copy Share Image
“I'm a peasant I'm the muzhik A pest you're destined to play the music And yes it's pleasant to say it's beauty… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“She’s over the top rebellious, but damn her heart overflowing with insane love. She shakes thing up. Doesn’t play by rules and… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I really don't know what "I love you" means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he makes a choice. He chooses the memory of her. That’s why he turns. He doesn’t make the lover’s choice, but… — Céline Sciamma Copy Share Image
“I read poems for the pleasure of the mouth. My heart is in my mouth, and the sound of poetry is the… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“I found no oceans in your eyes, no windy storms or starry skies. Neither a pearl nor an ember I could see,… — Akash Mandal Copy Share Image
I wrote some serious stuff in high school; however, I hadn't been exposed to any of the major poets, not even the… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“I held love to my cheeks like a soft blanket on a babe yet, the east wind blew and away with it,… — Yefon Isabelle Copy Share Image
In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet. — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
“Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.” — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The glamorous life is a facade, a fraud a farce of frivolous trite The storybook is blank inside Chivalry has died” — Donato DiCristino Copy Share Image
Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice. — Phoebe Snow Copy Share Image
“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
