A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
How happy is the little Stone That rambles in the Road alone, And doesn't care about Careers And Exigencies never fears -- (...) — Mayma Copy Share Image
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Even wolves let their guard down from time to time and become a hunter’s favorite game. Hunted. Captured. Deceived. Betrayed.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“...so i will greet you in a way all loved things are meant to be greeted with a tear in my heart… — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Stadium rock and commercial rock are the opposite of what poetry needs. An audience of around 200 is ideal for poetry. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
“America is a dream. The poet says it was promises. The people say it is promises—that will come true. The people do… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters quicken, Luminously-peopled air ascends; And past… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
An intelligent man, a man who has a little meditative consciousness, can make his life a beautiful piece of art, can make… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“For such a career I lacked both endurance and inclination: the stress of ambition left me cold, while the Muse, the creative… — Ovid Copy Share Image
There is no time, No time to spare, These are the moments, In which we share, There is no time, Forget the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Sing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low. The universe's inward voices cry "Amen"… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
I think that to transfuse emotion - not to transmit thought but to set up in the reader's sense a vibration corresponding… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“In our time, they say there is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.” — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I was writing poems and little freestyle raps in my notes throughout all of elementary and high school. — Ice Spice Copy Share Image
Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as… — Beth Henley Copy Share Image
When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Look up, greet sparks of fire with salted eyes, For he’s a burning atmospheric sigh: One blaze of liquid flame on midnight… — Alan James Roll Copy Share Image
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
“Then, the door opens and there he is; silhouetted in the hall light. Long hair, long legs, and a heartbeat in tune… — Hunter S. Jones Copy Share Image
Love cannot be proved with Poems, Promises Or presents. Sometimes, Only Pain, sacrifices and patience can prove it. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness. — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
“We are each what never leaves us, what we never see the back of is the self. But what loves us is… — Christina Davis Copy Share Image
“Since the majority of me Rejects the majority of you, Debating ends forthwith, and we Divide.” — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
If your house has Cold Mountain poems They are better for you than sutras Hang them up where you can see them… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted. — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take. — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled… — Lisa St. Aubin de Teran Copy Share Image
“Wildflowers can't be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky, and a spirit as free and… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“It's that wounded-poet crap, that soul-pain shit, that too-much-of-a-tortured-genius-to-wash bollocks. Brush your teeth, you little bastard. You're not fucking Byron.” — Robert Galbraith Copy Share Image
“This life is going to have a lot of unknowns, but please know that my love for you will never be one… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
Colors in painting are as allurements for persuading the eyes, as the sweetness of meter is in poetry. — Nicolas Poussin Copy Share Image
“Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat? Who doesn't have at least one pair… — Lucia Perillo Copy Share Image
