The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You go to a Springsteen show, and half of the people are there to party and forget about their cares, and they're… — Mat Kearney Copy Share Image
What shall I say about poetry? What shall I say about those clouds, or about the sky? Look; look at them; look… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“yoga soul today. instant resonation. Spring Somewhere a black bear has just risen from sleep and is staring down the mountain. All… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The details make life holy. If you want a little happiness in life don’t forget to look at the little things. It… — Noah Ben Shea Copy Share Image
I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no… — Rumi Copy Share Image
It is the role of the artistic coder to question the coding languages, both through self-reflection and by using them for unintended… — Stephanie Strickland Copy Share Image
Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“To write a poem...to paint an image on canvass from the contemplation of nature and life...is to be present again in this… — Deeper sense of presence Isabella koldras Copy Share Image
Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must… — Zachary Schomburg Copy Share Image
I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds… — Jimmy Santiago Baca Copy Share Image
Human bodies are words, myriads of words, (In the best poems re-appears the body, man's or woman's, well-shaped, natural, gay, Every part… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Then, of course, there are those sad occasions when a poet or a writer has not grown, and one has to let… — James Laughlin Copy Share Image
“My tactic is to look at you To learn how you are Love you as you are My tactic is to talk… — Mario Benedetti Copy Share Image
“ A Baby Elephant Right now my love for you is a baby elephant Born in Berlin or in Paris, And treading… — Nikolai Gumilev Copy Share Image
The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“The horses suddenly began to neigh, protesting Against those who were drowning them in the ocean. The horses sank to the bottom,… — Boris Slutsky Copy Share Image
“You take my breath away From mile away Hair, twice as nice Smile is your make up, angelic face You light up… — Patrick Cruz Copy Share Image
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
I think Don Henley is a brilliant contemporary rock writer. He would have been a fabulous poet if he weren't a musician.… — Don Felder Copy Share Image
Never forget that the subject is as important as your feeling; the mud puddle itself is as important as your pleasure in… — Valerie Worth Copy Share Image
“Young poets are too apt to consider themselves “children of the mist” – they must dwell apart from men and contemn their… — Deborah L. Halliday Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
“Robots are like Mars: they need girls. Boys won't do; the memesoup is all wrong. They stomp when they should kiss and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I am a relatively rational being and I like to create order in poems. I like meter, I like rhyme, but ultimately… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
When I met Bob Dylan, I was definitely impressed. This guy had come from the American folk world, but he was very… — Donovan Copy Share Image
“And this love of definite conception, this clearness of vision, this artistic sense of limit, is the characteristic of all great work… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A Poem For Papa She visit you on any giving day. With only a few words to say. She bow her head… — Ray Price Billy Copy Share Image
“McIntyre’s tale may have predecessors, but it is unique. I strain for literary comparisons and think: Kipling, the classical Chinese poets, early… — Stephen J. Bodio Copy Share Image
People get anxious about dividing sorts of poetry, say Confessionalism from political poetry. But Confessionalism is very much an expression of racial… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I was a bit shut down by a lot of the snarkiness and biliousness in some of the poetry blogs. I was… — Simone Muench Copy Share Image
“Each young person is a poet of sorts, trying to sort out the poetics of their inner life and its relation to… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been… — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
Fire up your heart for the wind is getting cold, now it always gets cold for the riders of the night. When… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
My dedication to trying to be a poet started very, very young, and I was very well encouraged by good teachers and… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Daniel was twenty-three, a year younger than I was, and though he hadn’t yet published a book of poems he seemed to… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“GERTRUDE (1964) Three men-her husband, a poet, and a young musician-love her, but because none of them will put his love for… — Steven Jay Schneider Copy Share Image
The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
