By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow. — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
A poem is a box, a thing, to put other things in. For safe keeping. — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
“If you can weep with your words, the meaning of your heart can be written forever” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“Because at night when others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Poetry?" ... "No, just thoughts, glimpses, things running through my head.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
“ Consummation is consumption We cannot consummate our bliss and not consume All joys are cakes and vanish in eating All bliss… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
What happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first… — Helen Dunmore Copy Share Image
Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words… — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
Once a year I try writing a poem, usually because I've read some poetry that amazed me and I want to do… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“You can only hurt a woman so many times before her fangs grow sharp, her claws scratch deep, and her eyes become… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“ The Taxi When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum. I call out for you… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
“kindness is the foundation for the body that you call home but there are moments when you begin to question whether or… — Tesia Lewis Copy Share Image
My heart born naked was swaddled in lullabies. Later alone it wore poems for clothes. Like a shirt I carried on my… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The poetry and transgression that was so much of surrealism's anarchic force has been recruited into mainstream culture. It has been made… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
The world still wants its poet-priest, a reconciler, who shall not trifle with Shakspeare the player, nor shall grope in graves with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for… — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
“I had forgotten. Disgust shadows desire. Another life is never safely envied.” — Robert Wells Copy Share Image
“Put a girl in moonlight and tell only truths and every man becomes a poet.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The formula for doing a good job in photography is to think like a poet. — Imogen Cunningham Copy Share Image
