When you're going through something, whether it's a wonderful thing like having a child or a sad thing like losing somebody, you… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Ordinary life was laced with miracles, I knew that, had read enough poetry to understand that we are elevated with the knowing,… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I am a lantern, I glow bright I break for day, and wait for night Without me you’d be blind You take… — Carlos Hutchinson Copy Share Image
A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called "The Road Less Traveled", describing a journey he took through the woods… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There was nothing to do but wait. It is always like this for naturalists, and for poets--the long hours of travel and… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation &… — Jerome Rothenberg Copy Share Image
“Lionhearted woman carrying silver swords beneath your skin. Your heart is huge, copious courage you hold within. You fight and never give… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain. not shoes but a place to walk.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“...our imagination, like stars, Hint at something in the distance. I don't know where we will be But we will light up… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I ain't much for words nor I'm a poetic ,but to show you my feelings. I will make a thousand of poems… — Michael Country Copy Share Image
And I think that it is certainly possible that the objective universe can be affected by the poet. I mean, you recall… — Jack Spicer Copy Share Image
“Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven. The world is beautiful because… — James Allen Copy Share Image
“The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
And the poets will tell you to do things with passion, do everything with passion-mediocre is your enemy...but what they forget to… — Kiki Copy Share Image
“Harvest Do not let a woman with a sexy rump deceive you with wheedling and coaxing words; she is after your barn.… — Nancy Boutilier Copy Share Image
If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be… — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can… — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“The aesthetic construct, and nothing else, has taught us to expose ourselves to a non-enslaving experience of rank differences. The work of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“Poetry has a unique ability to distill complex emotions into a few lines, creating a powerful impact that lingers in the hearts… — LaTesha Monique Copy Share Image
“Poem from Rev. Jim Cotter, as listed on the opening pages of “Anatomy of the Spirit” by Caroline Myss: ~ God be… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
“A Spanish poet, Antonio Machado, once said: ‘Dijiste media verdad. Dirán que mientes dos veces si dices la otra mitad.’” “Translated means…”… — Olga Núñez Miret Copy Share Image
“During the hours when which our souls should be taking flight... Dancing almost endlessly with our hopes and dreams... As if only… — Christine Upton Copy Share Image
As a fairly innocent teenager, growing up in a village in Wales, I just thought, "God, I would like to go and… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“in this moment of orangutans, wolves, and scavengers, of high heat redesigning the north & south poles and the wanderings of new… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
“Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning. Even science, the strict measurer, is obliged to start with a make-believe… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The genius of happiness is still so rare. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
When poets die, other poets take it personally, almost as an affront. A lot of us "left behind" are thinking that poetry… — Allison Joseph Copy Share Image
“I'm so good that I'll do what you want me to do--for I feel there's something else you want me to do."… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
“Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Old English poetry also contained a wide range of conventional poetic diction, many of the words being created to allow alliterative patterns… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
I read, read enormously on all different fields of Islamic thought, from philosophy to Islamic literature, poetry, exegeses, knowledge of the Hadith,… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
When I first became brave enough to tell people that I wrote poems, so many people would rave to me about Edna… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“She pops her head into a bare-looking kitchen and has a little wander round it. Here, she reads, Emily would sometimes make… — Mick Jackson Copy Share Image
