The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“Philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description. — Rachel Held Evans Copy Share Image
“We all must face death and walk with it. But we also must love and live in it.” — Rolando Mithcell Copy Share Image
“Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.” — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“When I’m with you, The gravity of our moments, The weight of our smiles Makes time nearly stop.” — L. Austen Johnson Copy Share Image
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truth All death will he annul, all tears assuage? Or fill these void veins full… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool. — Peter J. Daniels Copy Share Image
“Be generous with your smile and try not to frown. And you will see my children; your smile will never let you… — Benny Bellamacina Copy Share Image
To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets ... — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You don't even like poetry," Tessa said, her voice catching on a half laugh of relief. "No. But you make me want… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think, as poets, we are in the odd position of constantly defending our art form. Which is funny and also sort… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“To create - a role, a poem, picture, music, a rapture in stone: great. But not for her. What she wanted was… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If AP English via Miss Sweeney had taught Flannery anything, it was that life was brimming with various traumas and tragedies—the great… — Mary O'Connell Copy Share Image
“Every second, every minute, every hour our bodies breathe in the manna of Heaven. Our bodies resonate with the love and power… — Ramon Ravenswood Copy Share Image
Listening a cultivated person of today that jokes and almost boasts about his scientific ignorance, is as sad as listening a scientist… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
“In the visitor's book at Crome Ivor had left, according to his invariable custom in these cases, a poem. He had improvised… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“She no longer think that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.” — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“I like your mind when it plays with mine. We harmonize, like a dirty sweet symphony.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Into the day as by dream I swim to the music of nourished meaning. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Islands are metaphors of the heart, no matter what poet says otherwise. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
“Life's like us We find it- and then the death A poem for a goodbye? Why insist?” — Daie-Soko Copy Share Image
Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
