The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“Our spirits are connected honey. Wrapped in firsts of gnarled heartache. But I promise not to let go if you don't.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There's two ways to become a famous Poet, find that one person that knows somebody, that knows somebody, that knows somebody. Or… — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
“This process is what the poet E. E. Cummings would call the moment you feel you are nobody but yourself.” — Hilaria Baldwin Copy Share Image
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of… — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“Mom took me off the BiPAP, I tethered myself to a portable tank, and stumbled into my bathroom to brush my teeth.… — John Green Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively… — David Grubbs Copy Share Image
“That dress…was a very, very good decision. I could write an entire poem on the virtues of your legs alone. You are… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
“Every broken piece of me fell on every broken piece of you and when I took the missing parts, like the emptiness… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Hemingway studied, as models, the novels of Knut Hamsun and Ivan Turgenev. Isaac Bashevis Singer, as it happened, also chose Hamsun and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
“They went to Italy. Neither of them cared in the smallest degree for sculpture, architecture, painting, archaeology, poetry, history, politics, scenery, languages,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My goals as an artist have nothing to do with speaking to an audience. I love to have a good time, but… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
From seed to tree I grew so tall, through wind and rain I could not fall. But now my branches suffer and… — The Beach Boys Copy Share Image
A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“To my way of thinking the function of the poet is to make us aware of what we know and don't know… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
My gut was always that if I taught students poetry, I would give too much of myself to them and have nothing… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I'm from this tough, macho football world where you don't talk poetry or open up about yourself. — Jason Taylor Copy Share Image
In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Like wind and fire, water and soil, we used one another, to grow and blossom. Love was a dream, elusive as were… — Iva Hotko Copy Share Image
What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“I think good poetry should startle, shatter and, yes, entertain while getting as close to the truth as possible. I can get… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“When you committed to love me, cherish me, be only with me, protect my heart, I took all that literally. Silly me.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Michel Aflaq - is bad poetry wrapped in the guise of utopian politics, or great poetry wrapped in the guise of horrible… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a poet. I wrote from ages 15 to 22, but I left it because I discovered, and fell… — Sebastian Lelio Copy Share Image
A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Days, hours, minutes, seconds slip by unappreciated, unnoticed. Notice them. Appreciate them. And treat them like they could be your last.” — Amanda Leigh Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like a song without music,” I said loftily. “A song without music is like a body without a soul.” — Patrick Rothfuss- The Name of the Wind Copy Share Image
“The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
But Fear and the Muse in turn guard the place Where the banished poet has gone And the night that comes with… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I treat myself as one of the sources. And, again, I think that’s accurate. One of the poets I read most frequently… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
The spiritual desire for poetry can be overwhelming, so much do I need it to experience and name my own perilous depths… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs. — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I started to write my own stories, like small novels, and those novels became poems, and after poems, they became lyrics, and… — Dawn Richard Copy Share Image
