“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Everyone is their own kind of poet - you can't miss it when their words are written down. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
“I have to be in a particular mindset to write poetry. I either have to be very depressed or very inspired.” — Nicholas Trandahl Copy Share Image
For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
I look at you and you look at me and deep in our hearts know it That you weren't much of a… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
“Read Frank’s poem, “Advice to the Players.” It talks about all of this, about the human need to create.” — James Franco Copy Share Image
Oh! That was poetry!" said Pippin. "Do you really mean to start before the break of day? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a reader I don't distinguish between confessional and non-confessional work. After all, how do we even know that certain "I" poems… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off.… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Of all the days dropped in time's pocket This day will seek acknowledgement with a child's shy asking, because the love between… — Vassar Miller Bagatelle Copy Share Image
I like the poem on the page and not at the podium. I like to address the poem in peace and quiet,… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
“I don’t have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Off the Santorini cliff on a dark, starless night, I tossed a message in a bottle and love found me washed up… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“The creative artist has something in common with the hero. Though functioning on another plane, he too believes that he has solutions… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think if I tried very hard, I could do a novel or a play, a poem. I could possibly paint a… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
“I saw a pink sun, and when no one believed me I blocked their sky with the soft side of my hand.… — Kushal Poddar, Poet Copy Share Image
Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“I think that the habit of gloomy poetry is very funny. It’s like a special competition in losing.” — Miroslav Holub Copy Share Image
“She just needs someone to remind her of all the things she already knows about herself.” — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
I really liked 'Blk Girl Art.' It's like a manifesto saying why I create, whether it's poetry or music. — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody? — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
“Like fish, when metaphors get old, they go bad,” writes Christian poet Jeanne Murray Walker,9 and nowhere is that more apparent than… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base… — Omari Hardwick Copy Share Image
“I’ve turned down too many gods to Start inventing my own now Or believe in yours either.” — Joanna McClure Copy Share Image
Learning from books is so empowering - whether it be from history, a novel or a poem. When you come away from… — Lisa Lucas Copy Share Image
But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Maybe you're one of those people who writes poems, but rarely reads them. Let me put this as delicately as I can:… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
I am a romantic poet that sings your songs and crave your touch; until that day comes I will continue to inscribe… — Mai Love Copy Share Image
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry...I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit. — Deborah Jowitt Copy Share Image
Basically, my musical life is split between raving with drugged-up kids and reading obscure 75-year-old poetry, drinking very nice red wine with… — Henrik Vibskov Copy Share Image
The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words. — Stephane Mallarme Copy Share Image
“I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, . . . The little toil of love, I thought,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The greatest lovers are like twin blooms, each reflecting the passion and the glory of the other. — Jonathan Lockwood Huie Copy Share Image
