Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts. — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
“They tell me to be quiet When I’d rather cause a riot And have everyone screaming Out their eccentric meaning.” — Initially NO Copy Share Image
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“L'art Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth, Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and… — Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the spiritual essence of life; and therefore not a low-calorie diet for the brain.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at… — David Markson Copy Share Image
She wished she had a little yellow house of her own, with a flower box full of real flowers and herbs –… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Edgar Allan Poe, I think he's a brilliant poet. I was actually given a copy of his work when I was, like,… — Dove Cameron Copy Share Image
“Think of your woods and orchards without birds! Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Tho' veiled in spires of myrtle wreath, Love is a sword that cuts its sheath, And thro' the clefts, itself has made,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“She had more of me then I had of myself. We were both wild birds chasing the stars. We’d lose our way… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s,… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
“This is a poem about death, about the heart blanching in its fold of shadows because it knows someday it will be… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers. — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
For me, poetry is a way of thinking, and like many poets, I'm driven by the idea of trying to find the… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“This is how we dreamed. Moonlight in our mouths, love on our lips and summer in our skies.” — Marie-Kristin Hofmann Copy Share Image
You admire, Vacerra, only the poets of old and praise only those who are dead. Pardon me, I beseech you, Vacerra, if… — Martial Copy Share Image
Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Limitations are possibilities . . . Opportunities to perceive ourselves Beyond our present selves . . .” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. — John Keats Copy Share Image
“The worst is when people - knowingly or not - carry prison inside themselves. - 9-10 P.M. Poems ” — Nâzım Hikmet Copy Share Image
I learned that to be amusing was not to be frivolous and that language - always the language - was the magic… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“If thou indeed derive thy light from Heaven, Then, to the measure of that heaven-born light, Shine, Poet! In thy place, and… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I'm not a journalist; I'm a poet. I had a discourse, an encounter with these people but I never had a list… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep. — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Poetry which owes no man anything, owes nevertheless one debt - an image of the world in which men can again believe. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
There's poetry in the world. Poetry doesn't belong just to the poets. You know, you can look at the most premeditated, cold… — Francesco Clemente Copy Share Image
Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“the activity of modern poets stands under the decree of necessity, as though they were building a pyramid, the monstruos residence of… — Hugo von Hofmannsthal Copy Share Image
When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Maybe one day we’ll find that place, where you and I could be together and we’ll catch our dreams within the waves… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Too much war, hatred and fear in the world. Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
And any stone being mentally handled must become endowed with such poetry and artistry as God has given you. — Edwin Lutyens Copy Share Image
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason. — Thomas More Copy Share Image
Just a writer with a pen, writing about my life of sin. Shit, I don't even know where to begin.. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
