Dr Blair . . . asked . . . whether he thought any man of a modern age could have written such… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it,… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“For nine more nights they trained, after an arduous day’s march, Vaelin would try to turn a poet into a swordsman.” — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
“There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Imagination makes the world and all the wonders in it. The seed of every dream unfurls as you with love begin it!” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Time is a seed we’re given. We bloom, we decay, we’re reborn— shaped by the seasons we survive. Thorn or blossom, we… — Poe Avondet Copy Share Image
“Great Shakespeare!, you who can say everything, everything, everything exactly as it is – and yet why was this torment one you… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“A great poem is for ages and ages in common and for all degrees and complexions and all departments and sects and… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Symptoms of Love... The quickening of my heart I can hear my breath as it passes through my body like wind through… — M.I. Ghostwriter Copy Share Image
“Sleepless nights Spent looking at the ceiling Searching in those etched patterns For some sort of adhesive To glue together the broken… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Yes, the mistrust of poetry has a long history, for a variety of reasons, but they all come down to sentiment and… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write… — Miranda Cosgrove Copy Share Image
“The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd… — Beth Kephart Copy Share Image
“Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds.” — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet. But a plan and a series of unfortunate events saw those dreams dash… — Lana Del Rey Copy Share Image
I found a comfort in trying to solve some poetic problems because there were human ones I just couldn't solve. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative. — Adrian Mitchell Copy Share Image
“He offered his love ... she could not bother, She gives her love to the other! The other!” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“You said we can't happen, but darling, we started happening the very first day we met.” — J.A. ANUM Copy Share Image
Verse is vibin with the aura more important imported from my heart distorted portions get recorded for mass absorption — C-DASH Copy Share Image
“If queens did not exist, the poets would have had to invent them, so necessary as they are to a nation's glory.” — Lise Arin Copy Share Image
“Receio que a poesia é pior que o sexo tântrico: não mexe nem sai de cima. I'm afraid that poetry is worse… — Victor Eustáquio Copy Share Image
In a word, poetry can not exist without emotion, or, if you will, without a movement of the soul which regulates the… — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
Shelley and Keats were the last English poets who were at all up to date in their chemical knowledge. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The way to become a poet is to read poetry and to imitate what you read and to read passionately and widely… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and… — Benjamin Clementine Copy Share Image
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
“There is a difference between a poem and a writing incrusted with a feel of Poetry to fall within range” — Mpho Leteng Copy Share Image
Poems mesmerized me, and I felt better when I was writing them, or trying to - more in touch with something deep… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
My wife has been my greatest earthly inspiration. She excels in eloquence, the poetry of words, empathy and graciousness. — George W. Romney Copy Share Image
“There are only two kinds of people in this world who want to be miserable: poets and method actors.” — Steve Kaplan Copy Share Image
I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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