“In a world that has no heaven the earth becomes an abyss. And the poem is one of its consolation prizes. One… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts Make of so noble individual parts One fire of four inflaming eyes, and… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Existential philosophy, poetry and art - just like sadness - were all unavoidable to a tender young man in the meat works. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a… — Paul Dano Copy Share Image
The artist looks for a subject. You know, a lot of new poets don't seem to have a subject. I don't totally… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
At this moment, by an undeserved stroke of fortune, I am the direct voice of the poets of my race and the… — Gabriela Mistral Copy Share Image
“Nothing can be done but by inches. I write out my life hour by hour, word by word . . . imagining… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
According To Twitter Everyone Is A CEO, Rapper, Model, Club Promoter, DJ, Poet, Singer, Actress/Actor… Y'all Ain't Shit — Kiana J Wilson Copy Share Image
When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, "To whom it may… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
“Spend the glittering moonlight there Pursuing down the soundless deep Limbs that gleam and shadowy hair, Or floating lazy, half-asleep. Dive and… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
We do have to learn poetry at school. Poetry is interesting to me, particularly Chinese poetry. It's like an ancient form of… — Jenova Chen Copy Share Image
“What do you know of poetry?” Ambrose said without bothering to turn around. “I know a limping verse when I hear it,”… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“ We'll Go No More A-roving So, we'll go no more a-roving So late into the night, Though the heart still be… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I don't want to, in any way, characterize a race or a people or get accused of racial profiling, but the Irish,… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies. — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
“I Don't Write Because God Gives Me A Fresh Word Everyday, I write Because of The Words He Has Already Spoken Yesterday… — The Prolific Penman Copy Share Image
Arthur Rimbaud was a disreputable, mean, ruthless, perverse, hateful wretch. He was also one of the greatest poets who ever lived. — Raymond Sokolov Copy Share Image
The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory,… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
“Silver hidden in the gold, Young man hidden in the old, Laughing lord with weeping eyes, Bring king and ring before sunrise!… — Margaret Lovett Copy Share Image
The man is either mad or his is making verses. [Lat., Aut insanit homo, aut versus facit.] — Horace Copy Share Image
There are three good things in this world. One is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of… — Rupert Brooke Copy Share Image
“I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring - I wrote my very… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
As for political poetry, as it's usually defined, it seems there's very little good political poetry. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Every particle of dust on a patch of earth Was a sun-cheek or brow of the morning star; Shake the dust off… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“The poet William Butler Yeats said, “We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.” — Dawson Church Copy Share Image
Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“Why can’t I quiet the thoughts running through my head? Put down the pen and climb snugly into bed?” — Amanda Leigh Copy Share Image
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like...first all you have is... A line weaving through your mind Like the tail of a child's kite Unfettered by… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he's reaching up to grab me, I suppose it's an erotic… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to write an impromptu poem for you. 'Rose is in red But never… — Adrian Ivashkov Copy Share Image
When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience. — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
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