There are poems about the internet and about the shipping forecast but very few by women celebrating men. — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
Out of pain and problems have come the sweetest songs, the most poignant poems, the most gripping stories. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial… — Harley King Copy Share Image
“My mind is heaven My eyes are the sun and the moon My awareness shines like the morning star.” — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Political poetry is more profoundly emotional than any other-at least as much as love poetry-and cannot be forced because then it becomes… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“We always used to celebrate together at the end of a picture. Clark insisted on it. Maybe we’d include the director, maybe… — Myrna Loy Copy Share Image
When I think of someone equating poems and machines, it makes me feel like that person would like poems to have a… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
“Dada demonstrated that a society that had lost respect was no longer in a position to demand that the artist adhere to… — Marc Dachy Copy Share Image
“She might come in to bride-bed: and he laughed, As one that wist not well of wise love's craft, And bade all… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“1. That he had approved himself to his own conscience, verse 12: “For our own rejoicing is this, the testimony of our… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“The island of Lesbos has given many gifts to the world—Lesbian wine and Lesbian verse, the seven-stringed lyre, and the poems of… — Stanley Lane-Poole Copy Share Image
“Once, as I passed by a cottage, there came out a lovely fairy child, with two wondrous toys, one in each hand.… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“the best and worst critics I had was in the Marine Corps, If you can share poetry to a bunch of opinionated… — Vincent Breit Copy Share Image
“. . . I suppose one starts out, as a child, being romantic and dreaming of adventure. Poetic. Then reality comes along,… — Roberta Pearce Copy Share Image
Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not… — Martial Copy Share Image
I always wrote poems when I was a little girl, and I loved hip hop music, and I kind of just started… — Chanel West Coast Copy Share Image
“Let’s not be too harsh where poets are concerned. They have to live in no-man’s-land, halfway between dreams and reality.” — Arthur Gordon Copy Share Image
In many ways, I feel like the form carries so much of the weight in a poem, obviously. But I think we… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
“Mad Olia had a lot to say, and most of it was nonsensical, if it could be understood at all. Like bad… — Charlie N. Holmberg Copy Share Image
There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
We have the ability to be the Athens of modern times as opposed to the militaristic Sparta. I remind you that the… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
“You put butterflies back into my soul and painted their wings with passion and poetry.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making… — Roy Harper Copy Share Image
“I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I wish I had the gift of making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
“...at dawn, the grains of sleep turn to floating black spots, then out of focus the world tilts, and the cat scratches… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Were it not, such short tresses so great a treasure, That you teach me a sweetness, quite other, Soft through the kiss… — Stéphane Mallarmé Copy Share Image
