“I work backwards with the ending in mind as I create art, stories, poems and books. Always in a process of becoming.” — Jill Telford Copy Share Image
The world, in its sheer exuberance of kindness, will try to bury the poet with warm and lovely human trivialities. It will… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.” — Charles Wright Copy Share Image
It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
“So Mr. Pizarsky had been a poet? That was how he’d said it: “I was a poet." As if the poet had… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“we were all born to the same world but with much greater circumstance but with these two hands and what I have… — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
“Dr. Mark A. Gabriel, Ph.D., a former professor of Islamic history at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt has described the contents of… — John Price Copy Share Image
I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“Who, for example, would have ever predicted that the high school student who uses too many verbs in her college admissions essay… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
“Yes, trust them not, for there is an upstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tiger's heart wrapped in a… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
When I lose all wards and can't make sense, when all meanings of life confuses me and I can't open up to… — Abeer Shennawy Copy Share Image
“A poem was a box for your soul. That was the point. It was the place where you could save bits of… — Andrea Ashworth Copy Share Image
I grew up in Banaras on Kabir and other Hindi poets and then I got introduced to Faiz, Hasrat Mohani, Allama Iqbal… — Anubhav Sinha Copy Share Image
“Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The idea that language can be recombined to create new forms, new things, is of course very old in poetry. — Michael Helm Copy Share Image
“...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of… — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
“You are the poem I never knew how to write and this life is the story I have always wanted to tell.” — Tyler Knott Gregson Copy Share Image
“Times change, as do our wills, What we are - is ever changing; All the world is made of change, And forever… — Luís Vaz de Camões Copy Share Image
I'm basically a poetry scholar, and I'm happier here in my studio with my row of Chinese dictionaries than I am, frankly,… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The life is like a image in mirror. it is so beautiful, so clear but so sensitive, it break into many parts… — Deepak Copy Share Image
I guess that would have been 1968. I was a freshman in college and I wasn't writing good poems, but I was… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
In the United States, in poetry workshops, it's now quite a thing to make graduate students learn poems by heart. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words. I will always try to shape words into my singing poems. — Arnold Adoff Copy Share Image
“Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.” — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
I think I view myself primarily as a fiction writer. Poetry is more of a "hobby," a time of rest from the… — Yuriy Tarnawsky Copy Share Image
When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into… — Dana Scott Copy Share Image
“It is time I came back to my real life After this voyage to an island with no name, Where I lay… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices.” — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation. — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
“Such perfect incompleteness, suggestion and ambiguity are among the most valuable devices of the skilled poet, means by which the poem opens… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with… — Odysseas Elytis Copy Share Image
I started writing when I was in school. I wrote essays and in my teen years I used to write sorrowful sad… — Sudha Murty Copy Share Image
“If you find yourself still clinging to every feeling you thought was lost forever... Maybe, just maybe, it's the only place you… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
