“Gentle whispers from above Awakened me more Than ever did This loud world” — Holly Ducarte Copy Share Image
“A Poet does not Wait on Dreams They Create Them Richard M Knittle Jr. ©2016” — Richard M Knittle Jr Copy Share Image
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“What is a woman that you forsake her And the hearth fire and the home acre To go with that old grey… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
I'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes… — Hozier Copy Share Image
“If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change… — The Prolific Penman Copy Share Image
"You're next, after the feather dancers." And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet." You… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not going to make them laugh. But there… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“Enséñame a volar, mi mariposa hermosa,’ Tim said suddenly. ‘It’s from a poem I— Well, it’s from a poem.’ ‘What’s it mean?’… — Jay Bell Copy Share Image
The issues of poetry, and music, and dialogue with one another is the essential thrust of any song. The breakdown becomes the… — Thomas Hampson Copy Share Image
There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“You are the calmest, fiercest person I know, and that is enough to draw me into your world and woo me into… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“As a kid, I never was the type to color in the lines. I used to wonder, why do the lines even… — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color… — Sigbjørn Obstfelder Copy Share Image
In my view, the composer, just as the poet, the sculptor or the painter, is in duty bound to serve Man, the… — Sergei Prokofiev Copy Share Image
We all write poems; it is simply that the poets are the ones who write in words — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It's always like you write a poem when you can't really say what you're trying to say. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“The rat is the mous- tache in the trache. the wrong- doer in the soer.” — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
The question shouldn't be is there life after death but is there life before death... — Kate Miller Copy Share Image
“I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“I came to you tardy and late as I usually do to the better things in my life” — Christy Brown Copy Share Image
With my poems, I finally won even my mother. The longest wooing of my life. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“And I'm not a poet: but never despair! I'll madly live the poems I shall never write.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I'm Artistry through Fluent and Flowing Poetry in Motion and I'm Letting it Flow…” — De Ann Townes Jr Copy Share Image
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening. — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
