“There is more of a nation's politics to be got out of its poetry than out of all its systematic writers on… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.” — John Donne Copy Share Image
Lamantia is faith building, encouraging poetry in that it abstractly hugs you by finally capturing the inexpressible. It's an experience similar to… — Weyes Blood Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll sing the same verse through the entire song, because the other verses aren't clicking. And when they do come to… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry. — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“Brahma and Airavata Long ago in lands of golden sand Brahma turned to Saraswati and gently kissed her inked hand…” — Muse Copy Share Image
Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. — Plato Copy Share Image
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Among both the learned and the not so learned it is accepted that poetry can be the language of the emotions; what… — R.D. Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“If we go on in this way, we shall have a new art of poetry, of which one of the first rules… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
“that she thought it was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It is a terrible moment when you realise you’ll never do all the best things this world can offer; that you’ll never… — Django Wylie Copy Share Image
Belief in one's identity as a poet or writer prior to the acid test of publication is as naive and harmless as… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“CAMPBELL: All poets. Poetry is a metaphorical language. MOYERS: A metaphor suggests potential. CAMPBELL: Yes, but it also suggests the actuality that… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I was suddenly made aware of another world of beauty and mystery such as I had never imagined to exist, except in… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
“Song of myself Smile O voluptuous cool-breath'd earth! Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees! Earth of departed sunset--earth of the mountains… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
When I went to film school about three years ago, the first two years you're required to make a series of short… — James Franco Copy Share Image
“In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to… — Akiko Busch Copy Share Image
On poetry: Everyone wants to know what it means. But nobody is asking, How does it feel? — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Rhyme is an attempt to reassemble and reaffirm the possibility of paradise. There is a wholeness, a serenity, in sounds coupling to… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“In another land there is glory In another land there is happiness In another land we all get along In another land… — April Nichole Copy Share Image
Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision. — Edmund Blunden Copy Share Image
“From ragbag, stumblebum, peripatetic lout To bonfire of catnip that burns itself out-- Bristled sack of hiss & claws Cinched at the maw--” — B.J. Ward Copy Share Image
It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
“As Auden is believed to have said, no poem saved a single Jew from the gas chambers. Never mind. Write the poems… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's… — Glen Hansard Copy Share Image
“Show me a little bit of your soul under all those pretty words you spill, and I promise you I will drink… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“There is always an unspeakable where, perhaps, the nucleus of the living relation between the poem and the world resides.” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
[The poets' role is that of] capturing on their instruments the secret stir of life in the air and giving it voice… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sit with my toes in a brook, And if any one axes forwhy? I hits them a rap with my crook,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“No! I don’t love you! I just like you, a little. Your lips are sweet, and your eyes are precious to me.… — Zorica Savron Copy Share Image
“Gilds the crenelated towers of the churches here and there, Intensifies the hue of flowers makes thy lovely face more fair.” — Marguerite de Angeli Copy Share Image
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel. — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
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