“And when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Winter only hangs on long enough for us to forget the winters that came before.” — Justin Bond Copy Share Image
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
You're walking by the tomb of Battiades, Who knew well how to write poetry, and enjoy Laughter at the right moment, over… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination — David Allan Coe Copy Share Image
I know, basketball is a dance. I didn't understand the significance of that type of training at first. I was supposed to… — Dirk Nowitzki Copy Share Image
I don't know where a poem comes from until after I've lived with it a long time. I've a notion that a… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
Real poetry is a party, a wild party, a party where anything might happen. A party from which you may never return… — Dorothea Lasky Copy Share Image
Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means. — F. R. Leavis Copy Share Image
To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When Im all alone these words just flow out of my chest. Turn em into poems, they worship, Im the best. — J Cole Copy Share Image
“ A Boy Out of the noise of tired people working, Harried with thoughts of war and lists of dead, His beauty… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
“I do not think he (Chester Arthur) knows anything. He can quote a verse from poetry or a page from Dickens or… — Harriet Blaine Copy Share Image
“I have made a similar suggestion for poetry: that one should approach it as pure sonority, reading and rereading it as a… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
And a lot of poetry is putting yourself back into the state of wonder that you have before things when you're a… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
When we talk to somebody and we want to be nice or polite or show our more beautiful side, we try to… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“The moments of nature's universal, triumphant silence had come, those minutes when the creative mind works harder, poetic thoughts seethe more ardently,… — Ivan Goncharov Copy Share Image
“I dare to think that it is this outsized reality, and not just its literary expression, that has deserved the attention of… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
