“Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses” — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it. — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The Black Mountain poet I like most is the early Creeley. Those early poems seem very lyrical and very traditional, with a… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“ To Those Without Pity Cruel of heart, lay down my song. Your reading eyes have done me wrong. Not for you… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“You know that eye-to-eye recognition, when two people look deeply into each other's pupils, and burrow to the soul? It usually comes… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
“Your mind will discern in the moments of clarity. In the darkness and the labyrinth of your path there lies a direction… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“I never needed a Man. I needed a Viking. I needed someone who wasn't afraid of my strengths, or of my needs.… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
“this is actualy a poem we have been called naive as if it were a dirty word, whe have been called innocent… — Jewel Kilcher Copy Share Image
There's a whole stereotype of the jazz musician that's into poetry and reading and metaphysics and all that stuff. Really, it's a… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
After watching Guru Dutt's films, I became a huge fan of Sahir Ludhianvi's poetry and the songs of Guru Dutt's films. — Mahira Khan Copy Share Image
The ingredients that make a good poem often differ from those that make a good essay and from those that make a… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
During the last years of Mayakovski's life, when all poetry had ceased to exist . . . literature had stopped. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it. — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I dabbled in writing, wrote really bad poetry in high school. I also took a few writing classes when I was an… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
“She's brim full of poetry - actualized poetry, if I may use the expression. She lives what paper-poets only write...” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization. — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“Poets and poetry help us express our emotions and experiences, making us feel less alone in our struggles.” — Wajid Shaikh Copy Share Image
“The Life is Poem, we write when we are Young, sing along all through Life, and we reap the truth when we… — Dr.T.V.Rao MD Copy Share Image
Its so funny the way I get poetic when I am single but when I am in a relationship I suck at… — Chris Copy Share Image
“But it turns out Joy is a house built from the same bricks as Sorrow. Pleasure is a poem, and it uses… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 He was the Word that spake it; He took the bread and brake it; And… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear. — Thomas Lynch Copy Share Image
“She’s mischief and madness waiting to catch fire and set souls ablaze; fluttering in the wind, impishly making violet love under a… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics… — Stephen Sondheim Copy Share Image
“My pond life with hydra is over; now I’m into the ocean world of poetry to dive deeper..” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“NEW HAIKU One breathy vowel mists the glass warming window panes crystalled with snow Robin Glasser” — Robin Glasser Copy Share Image
I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze...,… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
I've always been a poet. My dad went to Lincoln University with Gil-Scott Heron, so I came out of the womb listening… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
The phenomenon of Instagram poets - who are also, to be fair, Tumblr poets and Pinterest poets - has been one of… — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
