“Wakaalate bhi ajab-gazab hui zindagi mein Baari humaari kya aayi, gawaah hi badal gaye — Wajid Shaikh” — Wajid Shaikh Copy Share Image
“Life is beautiful. Death is astonishing. And love is the just breaths taken in between” — Michael Biondi Copy Share Image
“…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful.” — Jake Vander Ark Copy Share Image
I can't tear up a poem and be a sound bite for you. Why is that so hard for anyone to understand? — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Creo que el mundo es bello que la poesía es como el pan, de todos. I believe the world is beautiful and… — Roque Dalton Copy Share Image
“A lot we have in our head, But things of heart are not yet dead, They have done none, but just fled,… — Numey Copy Share Image
It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any style of poetry. David J Delaney ©” — David J Delaney Copy Share Image
Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“As poets value the sounds of words above their meanings, and images above arguments, I am trying to get thinking people to… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“It is embedded so deeply in the private lives of our more public shifts that we can forget it is there until… — Sarah Lewis Copy Share Image
“Have you ever been in love?” “Colin. For the love of God.” “I have,” he said bluntly. “And when you lose love,… — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“In school, I hated poetry - those skinny, Malnourished poems that professors love; The bad grammar and dirty words that catch In… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
In the interest of the ethical and moral health of the country, the writer, the poet, the artist, the thinker, must hold… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I do think the author ought to be able to give a good reason for the way things are in his poem.… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Poetry isn't written from the idea down. It's written from the phrase, line and stanza up, which is different from what your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“ Something Like That PARRA LAUGHS like he’s condemned to hell but when haven’t poets laughed? at least he declares that he’s… — Nicanor Parra Copy Share Image
“Tensurrealism creates actual and non-compromised reality, jamboree, fervor, fascination, poetics of an active enthusiasm, interludium, lyrical practice, active happiness.” — Lepota L. Cosmo Copy Share Image
When poems stop talking about the moon and begin to mention poverty, trade unions, color, color lines and colonies, somebody tells the… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Poems in a way are spells against death. They are milestones, to see where you were then from where you are now. — Richard Eberhart Copy Share Image
I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities. — Mary Timony Copy Share Image
I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
“Write from truth, write from self. Writing theory or conceptual writing may be A way to create new forms or styles but… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
“James, Chapter Four, seventh verse… 'Submit yourself therefore to God, wherefore he saieth resist the Devil and he will flee from you.' ” — Douglas Hensley Copy Share Image
“She has a quiet voice and a loud mind. Her eyes reflect an internal shine, her heart’s divine” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
When I record, I move stuff around a lot. I'll start off with a verse but then make that the hook. — Nav Copy Share Image
Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they… — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
I think the pleasure of form is that you have a companion with you besides all the poetry you have ever read. — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use. — Monica Youn Copy Share Image
You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
“Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
“Evelyn Uyemura, an English professor and poet, sometimes likes to say: 'We do not read the Bible the way it is; we… — Robin Allinson Parry Copy Share Image
“Did the poet know how lucky he was, to have such beautiful words and a place to put them and keep them?” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
I wrote a lot of poetry that was based on stories of the sea and I was really inspired by that. — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
