Quote by Allen Ginsberg

“It was one of those southern nights under whose spell all the sterner energies of the mind cloak themselves and lie down in bivouac,…

— George W. Cable

“Poetry is the insistent roaring of the human soul.”

— Pietros Maneos

“Poetry and its creations, philosophy and its researches and classifications, alike awoke the sleeping ideas in my mind, and gave me new ones.”

— Mary Shelley

“And I think that you must have observed again and again what a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the…

— Plato

“Once upon a time There was a friend Who poured some ink To a pen, which had been dried up Since then There are…

— Shasika Amali Munasinghe

“Poetry, to me, is a type of shamanistic chant capable of chasing away the darkness within us.”

— Leila Samarrai

“The scrawled letters form words, the words form lines, the lines form a poem. Your eyes scanning across the page give the poem life.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“We are as clouds that veil the midnight moon; How restlessly they speed, and gleam, and quiver, Streaking the darkness radiantly!--yet soon Night closes…

— Percy Shelley

“[Poetry] strips the veil of familiarity from the world, and lays bear the naked and sleeping beauty which is the spirit of its forms.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping…

— Traci Lea LaRussa

“On a Fine Morning” in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901) WHENCE comes Solace?--Not from seeing What is doing, suffering, being, Not…

— Thomas Hardy

“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. They knew how long the…

— Janet Fitch