Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down. — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I don't understand the whole thrilling verse, but I love the way poetry turns ordinary words into winged things that rise up… — Margarita Engle Copy Share Image
Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“But I'm a woman, and as the great poet so cleverly wrote, hell hath no fury as a woman scorned. Consider me… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
My sisters were going out with artists and poets, and eventually it was the creative world which attracted me. — Luc Ferrari Copy Share Image
Peitaho Heavy rains fall on Yuyen, the northland kingdom of swallows. White pages of rain envelop the sky, and fishing boats off… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“poetry readings have to be some of the saddest damned things ever, the gathering of the clansmen and clanladies, week after week,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts;… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
“By the time that poem became the story “River of Names,”* I had made the decision to reverse that process: to claim… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“The streets were all named after poets - Wordsworth Lane, Shelley Close, Keats Rise - no doubt chosen by the building company's… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I suppose every poet has his own private mythology. Maybe he's unaware of it. People tell me that I have evolved a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Interfaces called transparent allow us to interact/do what we're supposed to do without being aware of how the effects are obtained. We… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
For me, the intent in a song is to sing it. I compose songs, meaning I'm writing words to be set to… — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
“We, too, can divide ourselves, it’s true. / But only into flesh and a broken whisper. / Into flesh and poetry.” — Wisława Szymborska Copy Share Image
“I have a potent degree of love that is so unwise in one world that it is wisdom in another.” — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I've had it with these cheap sons of bitches who claim they love poetry but never buy a book. — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
I am fascinated with criminal law because it is as rigorous as a poem and because it is based on what has… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“It is untrue that bravery can be measured by a lack of fear. It takes guts to tremble. It takes tremble to… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“Evil is not good's absence but gravity's everlasting bedrock and its fatal chains inert, violent, the suffrage of our days.” — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
“Suicide is career gold for the poet. Sadly, the poet isn’t around to reap any benefits from it.” — Jim Behrle Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“His fangs sank deep into my heart. He made me his. He possessed me like a demon and loved me like his… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“The still waters Wrap my lips, Eyes, nose and ears, A clear Cellophane I cannot crack.” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I like to give and get basically anything (I love to read) but especially fiction and poetry. — Suzan-Lori Parks Copy Share Image
The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over. from an essay for Writers by Nancy Crampton ” — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subject of… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
I really wanted to be a poet - until I realized that I really didn't have what it took to be a… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I call my style, "Poetry in Motion." So I'm working on a new art to make fighting even more beautiful. — Bobby Green Copy Share Image
“I'm one that will cause people to scratch their heads in wonderment in search of their hollow hearts and look in their… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
“Love’s language starts, stops, starts; the right words flowing or clotting in the heart.” — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
“If it doesn't sound insane, I would only talk about you and the only word which would come out of my mouth,… — Masood Azam Copy Share Image
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“හද ළදල්ලකි වර්ණ සිතුවම් පතන Heart is a leaf bud wishing for colorful drawings (Translated by Himali N. Liyanage)” — Shasika Amali Munasinghe Copy Share Image
