I was much further along as a poet than as a songwriter, but the songs were getting more attention. They were doing… — David Berman Copy Share Image
“I am emptied through shallow breaths. Muscles tighten in my chest. I think I am a fool dressed up in king’s chamber,… — Zaineb Afzal Copy Share Image
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
“first you made sure I could not take my eyes off you then you danced me back home to myself” — Halina Goldstein Copy Share Image
I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“She's shed her skins and plasma jeans, gets around in 2K retro gear like the frock she wears today; a loose, white… — Lisa Jacobson Copy Share Image
“If I were stranded in the woods with nothing to eat but nuts, berries, and the complete works of Allen Ginsberg, I’d… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Wakened one morning in some dive to know the game was up. Nausea, the shivers, the disease that bums, stevedores, poets, and… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Perchance, dear reader, you will then believe that nothing is stranger and madder than actual life, and that this is all that… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“~Tonight's Sea~ Meet me by the sea, Under the stars. Where we can gaze With our hearts. Today, I am restless, Waiting… — Rachel Nicole Wagner Copy Share Image
In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Only poets and philosophers see the world as it really is, for only to them is it given to live without illusions.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Crystal ball and candle light, I want your dance tonight. Show me the power of love as we stand together in the… — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Let it shine, the light in you. Oh, and that's delighting me! Various colors shining through. Elated, it fills my soul with… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
We're all polyester poets and pickers of a kind, with far too many questions for the answers in our minds. — John Anderson Copy Share Image
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy. — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I’m trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“It’s the midnight flicker in her eyes and the mystery of her rapacious-looking mouth that draw them like a magnet to her… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
You never wish on shooting stars. You wish on the ones that have the courage to shine where they are. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
If from poetry we expect a succession of signals for the release of miscellaneous private emotion we are likely to find Tears,… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
When I was young, I would write all the time. Novels, plays, and poems. It's like a disease - my life is… — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
When shall I be dead and rid Of all the wrong my father did? How long, how long 'till spade and hearse… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The words are the mirror of a poet. Through which you can see the reflection of himself. — Gaurav Dagaonkar Copy Share Image
I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A poem is a neutrino - mainly nothing - it has no mass and can pass through the earth undetected. — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“Although you be, as I am, one of those Who feel a Christian ought to write in prose, For poetry is magic:… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
The importance of poetry is not measured, finally, by what the poet says but by how he says it. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
