“i believe that everyone in the world. has one poem. that is their soulmate.” — Nayyirah Waheed Copy Share Image
The success of Heine -- to become a world-famous 'unknown poet.' — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
Music is good, not evil. Poetry is good, not evil. Primitive, but oh, so true! — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love. — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“I think i should get love inked on my skin. Maybe that's the only way i am destined to keep it.” — Anjum Choudhary Copy Share Image
Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?” — Plato Copy Share Image
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of… — William James Copy Share Image
“If we are related, we shall meet. It was a tradition of the ancient world, that no metamorphosis could hide a god… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We'd like to just write nothing but lyric poetry. The trouble is, the individual is going along intent on his own personal… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they… — Hugo Claus Copy Share Image
I came from a very musical family, so I grew up singing karaoke with the family. My family said 'do this' and… — Cassie Steele Copy Share Image
“There's an Edna St. Vincent Millay poem that's been rumbling around inside me ever since I first read it, and part of… — John Green Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with you my angel. I sought nothing of you but only to see that dazzling smile of… — Mahmoud El Hallab Copy Share Image
“You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he knows… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Poets are never allowed to be mediocre by the gods, by men or by publishers. — Horace Copy Share Image
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out. — John Cleveland Copy Share Image
“He has a wonderful beauty and stillness and you do not. Your poems are unpleasant.” — Len Jenkin Copy Share Image
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric. — James Broughton Copy Share Image
I redo the body of my poem like someone who tries to cure her own wound. — Alejandra Pizarnik Copy Share Image
I have poetry in my soul but it's written in a language very few understand. — @efiosiugbore Copy Share Image
Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“MOST DAYS MY LIFE CAN BE SUMMED UP IN MOVIE QUOTES AND HIP HOP AND R&B LYRICS ” — Qwana Reynolds-Frasier Copy Share Image
“from him we come into him we go in between, we see what he decides to show.” — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
“I would fave preferred the happy man to the unhappy poems he's left us” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
