Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he's reaching up to grab me, I suppose it's an erotic… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“Why can’t I quiet the thoughts running through my head? Put down the pen and climb snugly into bed?” — Amanda Leigh Copy Share Image
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like...first all you have is... A line weaving through your mind Like the tail of a child's kite Unfettered by… — Vaddey Ratner Copy Share Image
Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets. — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“The poet William Butler Yeats said, “We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.” — Dawson Church Copy Share Image
“Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Now and then I am asked as to "what books a statesman should read," and my answer is, poetry and novels—including short… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
“But I withhold my pen; for vain were the fancy, by treatise or sermon or poem or tale, to persuade a man… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The pleasures of love proceed successively from a distich to a quatrain, from a quatrain to a sonnet, from a sonnet to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“LOVE is the only bow on life’s dark cloud. It is the Morning and the Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Cade thought about this. “Let me get this straight—you secretly pretend to like poetry to impress the smart girl in your English… — Julie James Copy Share Image
“Perhaps Aristotle’s most widely-read work is his esoteric treatise on aesthetics, the Poetics. According to his analysis of tragic poetry (a section… — The New York Times Copy Share Image
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
“We poets have no need for drugs to attain the borderline between life and death.” — Louis Malle Copy Share Image
We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
There are two versions to every poem – the crying version and the straight version — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself. — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
KHUCH EIS TARA KA JADOO TA US MA JO MUJAY MUJ SAY HE DHOORR KAR GAYA ANAB RAFIQ — Anab Rafi Copy Share Image
