Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves! — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
The rationalist mind has always had its doubts about Venice. The watery city receives a dry inspection, as though it were a… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“Aboard a boat of leaves I float, allowing new stories to unfold. Of cresting and falling winds, streaking words across the sky.… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
“I don't love her anymore So Why should I walk Nights By the tavern Where I drank Every night Thinking of her?” — Orhan Veli Kanık Copy Share Image
I love the autumn for its sense of melancholy seems to strike my need for sadness. There is poetry in the dying… — Kyffin Williams Copy Share Image
The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“The past above, the future below and the present pouring down: the roar, the roar of the present, a speech-- is, of… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
What is an artistic picture? An artistic picture is very simple. The creator is not the producer. The creator is not the… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
“And speaking of this wonderful machine: [840] I’m puzzled by the difference between Two methods of composing: A , the kind Which… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Oh dear heart, save yourself. will you not sing yourself to sleep humming wishes you thought you wouldn't make. will you not… — Hannah Cao Copy Share Image
Once a week I would meet up with the coolest teacher and we'd go over my work. All my friends were like,… — Dave Franco Copy Share Image
Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“And these are the same type of people who kill the innocent and justify it by saying “They’ve gone to be with… — Volatalistic Phil Copy Share Image
I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The wind is made of haunting souls that moan and groan in whistles and whispers. This ghostly choir chills the breeze and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
My hobbies are playing piano and guitar, pining for girls, worrying about climate change, pining for girls, and the poetry of John… — James Veitch Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble. — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Take 7 emcees put em in a line And add 7 more brothers who think they can rhyme It'll take 7 more… — Rakim Copy Share Image
I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
The actors I admire always have something to say, or a level of poetry, belief, activism or intelligence about what they do… — Zawe Ashton Copy Share Image
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale,” he whispered. The words of the poem had never seemed so fitting: Forever and ever,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Prizes aren't essential. What is essential is poetry itself, it's what is said, it is clarity, it's loyalty, those are the essential… — Maria Teresa Horta Copy Share Image
I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry. — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
Everytime I try, it opens up my eyes. These verses are a chance to be remembered and reprised — Drake Copy Share Image
“When twilight sleeps holding the night In your arms you embrace me tight Runaway hours clenched by kisses More of your love… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“the great fortunes of our day have rarely been accumulated through the sale of the most meaningful items and services, such as… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Poetry affords us a respite in which we may gather renewed strength for the old struggle to adapt ourselves to reality. —ROBERT… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
You should check out William Shatner's album The Transformed Man. It will alter the way you hear poetry forever. And not in… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
“this lightness is something created in the writing, using the linguistic tools of the poet, independent of whatever philosophical doctrine the poet… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
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