“But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry — it’s seeing. These materialists are blind. You told… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Poetry isn't important in today's culture, but the fact that it's useless and people still continue to write it makes it important,… — Aaron Mc Collough Copy Share Image
To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“My brunette with the golden eyes, your ivory body, your amber Has left bright reflections in the room Above the garden. The… — Renée Vivien Copy Share Image
“You Don't Know What Love Is But you know how to raise it in me like a dead girl winched up from… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
“A poem by Rudyard Kipling says derisively of people who despise soldiers and police that they make ‘mock o’ uniforms that guard… — Richard A. Posner Copy Share Image
It's true, there aren't many explicit references to Canada in my book. And not many explicit references to the U.S., either. I… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“Better Associations: If you associate yourself with a change maker, Your life will by all means become better. You will wink at… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every… — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
For me a true poem is on the way when I begin to be haunted, when it seems as if I were… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I invented the colors of the vowels!--A black, E white, I red, O blue, U green--I made rules for the form and… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“ The Coming of Light Even this late it happens: the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“And as she recites Scripture words tumble out of my mouth too, all of the poems and stanzas I've memorized spill out,… — Elizabeth Acevedo Copy Share Image
“So has Mrs. Leo Hunter, Sir. She dotes on poetry, sir. She adores it; I may say that her whole soul and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The ocean-blue bowl won’t refuse to bruise, won’t hold it back from the gaping earth-wounds. There will still come water, chill wind… — Bryana Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not the poet's business to save man's soul but to make it worth saving . . . However, few poets… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them,… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern &… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Have it compose a poem -- a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
'Blood Host' is super heavy. Especially on the verses, it has an industrial stomp. It's one of my favourite tracks just because… — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
“I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“When she does not find love, she may find poetry. Because she does not act, she observes, she feels, she records; a… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a… — Sir Muhammad Iqbal Allama Iqbal Copy Share Image
Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
If there is anything I love most, in the poems I love, it is the audible braiding of that bravery, that essential… — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose! All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
“I fell in love with your strength and your heart. I fell in love with your quirks and your stories. I fell… — Liz Newman Copy Share Image
Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“Gloomy room immersed in a scent of modern cowards filled with shapeless creatures sitting in silence because they have nothing to say… — Asper Blurry Copy Share Image
A poet has to adapt himself, more or less consciously,to the demands of his vocation, and hence the peculiarities of poets and… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautiful,… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
![“Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose! All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see 's been dubbed by [Us] into RP, Received Pronunciation, please believe [Us] your speech is in the hands of the Receivers.” quote by Tony Harrison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85f/tony-harrison-11449_communication_poetry-s-the-speech-of-kings-you-re-one_2680169.jpg)
