“When I was younger I thought that the fantasy of becoming invisible and the desire to become a poet stood in an… — Shuji Terayama Copy Share Image
“Kindness Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
In 2001, the hard disk on my laptop crashed, and everything on it was lost. I'd been using the computer for two,… — Caterina Fake Copy Share Image
“On Ponkawtasset, since, we took our way, Down this still stream we took our meadowy way, A poet wise has settled, whose… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
“Woman with known intent intending to explore Woman with her senses on the edge edging for some more..." From my poem, "Known… — Clarissa Clemens Copy Share Image
Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“People are looking for chimes and resonances. Chimes leave echoes, and that's what rhyme is. Poetry is about leaving an echo imprint… — Diana Georgeff Copy Share Image
I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order. He… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Don’t merely read verses; if that is all we do, we run the risk of deceiving ourselves. Don’t just pile up biblical… — Mike Ashcraft Copy Share Image
“A Letter from a Muse to Her Poet: Dear sir, I was called away and couldn’t bring you, but now I feel… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
When I first heard Bob Dylan, I'll be honest, I didn't like him. But I was shallow of mind and didn't understand… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
“Reluctance Out through the fields and the woods And over the walls I have wended; I have climbed the hills of view… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
A number of people have written poems about Trump already, and I salute them. He is so beyond anything we could have… — Mary Jo Salter Copy Share Image
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionairess, or become the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“What we encounter in works of art and philosophy are objective versions of our own pains and struggles, evoked and defined in… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Begun in fire, ending in ice. The poet was wrong; ice was a better destroyer than fire, particularly if you were in… — Dana Stabenow Copy Share Image
“Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“If I could go back in time to when I wrote sad little poems, I’d punch myself right in the fucking face… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“ Only In Sleep Only in sleep I see their faces, Children I played with when I was a child, Louise comes… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'East,' I wanted a completely earthy, very sexy, very violent play, so I wrote in verse. I found it… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“..giving power to negative thoughts or fears was bringing ideas to life in physical world,idea in mind became emotion in heart,emotion turned… — Christina Westover Copy Share Image
“ With Rue My Heart Is Laden With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipt… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
I was writing poems as I was walking. I was able to take that restlessness, that nomadic distraction, and use that distraction… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“He left that morning, the last words still echoing in my head, and though he said he’d come back one day I… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“I think of published poets that you could know of...I think [Rainer Maria Rilke] probably has the most great published poems of… — Dan Schneider Copy Share Image
“I have accepted that this is how it’s going to be that love and longing are going to take turns to sleep… — Sakshi Narula Copy Share Image
The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
You need a balance at all times. If the verse is a bit messy, you need it to be less messy right… — Max Martin Copy Share Image
“I love you." Lightning. Once it has forked, hot-white, from sky to earth, there is no going back. It's time. I feel… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most… — Daniele Bolelli Copy Share Image
Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“Life shows us all colours, some bright and some shades of grey, Some accept with a smile, while some frown in every… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
“The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today... The poetry of history lies in… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image