“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“I think it’s beautiful the way you sparkle when you talk about the things you love.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
In the earliest ages science was poetry, as in the later poetry has become science. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
“After a night of insomnia the body gets weaker, Becomes dear but no one’s — not even your own.” — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves… — Horace Copy Share Image
English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Loving him was honest, sky blushed pink, hair stiff with salt as we raced down the beach. At fourteen, he said, “Hurting… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
“I breathe in...the silence of my own heart aching with tenderness with memories.. Of home.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
What, after all, is mathematics but the poetry of the mind, and what is poetry but the mathematics of the heart? — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
“…she made a poem on it at once, the lines singing themselves through her consciousness without effort. With one side of her… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
A song just doesn't have verse-chorus-verse. It could just be one line. There are Chinese love songs that you have to learn… — Jeff Buckley Copy Share Image
People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
The task of the mind is to produce future, as the poet Paul Valery once put it. A mind is fundamentally an… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“I am. . . .power. . I am. . . .joy . . . . .peace. . . . . I am.… — Suenammi Richards Copy Share Image
“We don't read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human… — Tom Schulman Copy Share Image
“The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes… — Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Copy Share Image
Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I would rather write poems than prose, any day, any place. Yet each has its own force. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism. — Joanna Newsom Copy Share Image
“if I finally do catch you and put my mouth to yours you will taste that summer.” — Sina Queyras Copy Share Image
“the poem is a dice throw on a patch of darkness that may or may not glow” — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet. — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
