The terrible poetry of human nudity, I understand it at last, I who tremble for the first time in trying to read… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
Poetry is an exhibit of one pendulum connecting with other and unseen pendulums inside and outside the one seen. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
My research is like my feeling directed towards what is the principal value in the life, the poetry. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Books connect us readers to what we cannot see but imagine, an intangible sort of wonder and magic.” — Stephanie Morales Copy Share Image
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
“Man would not be man if his dreams did not exceed his grasp. ... Like John Donne, man lies in a close… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“How might I get over this? How would I be able to overlook the way he used to be with me? How… — Nishikant Copy Share Image
THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
“With the poet it was exactly the same as with the hero, and all strong, handsome, high-spirited, non-commonplace figures and enterprises: in… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The goddess smiled. "You are a good hero, Percy Jackson. Not too proud. I like that. But you have much to learn.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
. . . it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are-until the poem-nameless and formless, about to… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet. — John Keble Copy Share Image
Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Being an art form, verse cannot be "free" in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principle. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the icon-stasis on which a desire for aesthetic ecstasy illustrates itself endlessly.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
We are, always, poets, exploring possibilities of meaning in a world which is also all the time exploring possibilities. — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
I often write from memory by walking around and talking to myself. Even when I'm working at a computer I write out… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any and all styles of poetry.” — David J Delaney Copy Share Image
“I am the eye that beholds... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky... For I am… — Solange nicole Copy Share Image
“You will get no poetry from me, nor songs of love. But I will love you, every day for the rest of… — Christy English Copy Share Image
I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense, they suddenly burgeon… — Hafez Copy Share Image
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“The Love rush. Sensation only felt by the seduced mind and body under the command of it.” — J.Wolf Copy Share Image
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock.… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste. — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“For me,” she wrote, “poetry is an evasion from the real job of writing prose.” Throughout” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Citing Poe’s celebrity—everybody was “raven-mad about his last poem”—Briggs took him on as junior partner.” — Mike Wallace Copy Share Image
