Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Poetry offers the fairest hope of restoring our lost unity of mind. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Or fill these void veins full… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to… — Selima Hill Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Write to me your most perfect epitaph, or I shall compare a poet to a lecturer. Thou art more Spartan than a… — Scott Jonathan Nixon Copy Share Image
Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and… — Diana Abu-Jaber Copy Share Image
Help, please, who wishes!I'm not englishspeaker, write poetry for children to help them to learn lang., Can natives speak in such way?… — Yulia Godliya Copy Share Image
“The poet, the artist, the sleuth - whoever sharpens our perception tends to be antisocial; rarely "well-adjusted", he cannot go along with… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Poetry can save the world. I'm a real believer in its power of healing and transforming. I wish more people read it… — Carol Muske-Dukes Copy Share Image
Every other species of talent carries with it its eternity; we enjoy the work of the poet, the painter, the sculptor, only… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
“Many came but only two blue did appear. Enlaced in a sleigh, all happy the reindeer, Rolled in the snow that covered… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
When we were 15, my girlfriend Ruth Kaplan and I applied to the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City. We were accepted into… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas, like the colours or the words must fit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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