“why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.” — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Words are fossilized butterfly wings, pretty to look at sometimes, but only good for Museums. I want to miserably burn down the… — Jeremiah Walton Copy Share Image
“Really, for all the poetry in the world on the subject, when you get right down to it, it's mostly just boom!… — Martin Leicht Copy Share Image
“Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they… — David McDonald Copy Share Image
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
All I do and say and think 'as a poet' is much truer and more intimate than anything I say face to… — Selima Hill Copy Share Image
We fit the universe through our brains and it comes out in the form of nothing less than poetry. We have a… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.” — Nicole Lyons Copy Share Image
“Ah, the freshness in the face of leaving a task undone! To be remiss is to be positively out in the country!… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence. Though… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
“I mean, by such flightiness, something that feels unsatisfied at the center of my life — that makes me shaky, fickle, inquisitive,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“My thinking, far from being clearer than a crystal, was tortuous. I would read the same passage over and over again only… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
'Who's been repeating all that hard stuff to you?' 'I read it in a book,' said Alice. 'But I had some poetry… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Madame V begins the lesson by reading aloud the first stanza of a famous French poem: Il pleure dans mon coeur Comme… — Sonya Sones Copy Share Image
“Love is a fire that burns unseen, a wound that aches yet isn’t felt, an always discontent contentment, a pain that rages… — Luís Vaz de Camões Copy Share Image
Roses are red, violets are blue. God made me beautiful, what the hell happened to you? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Only the poets can hold the country together, and I wanted to hold Germany together. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride.” — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
“You own me with whispers like poetry. Your mouth is a melody I memorize.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“change is a constant machine, but not one designed by human hands. from "changeING” — K.R. Albers Copy Share Image
Poems tend to have instructions for how to read them embedded in their language. — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
