Books Quote by Charles Johnson

“The whisper of the wind through the grass speaks to my soul, revealing life's truths more deeply than the clamour of my thoughts.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

“Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“I feel like shredded paper thrown to the wind, each poet took a piece of me and wrote a word or phrase...”

— Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

— Mary Oliver

“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of…

— Zbigniew Herbert

“The wind you hear is the birth of memory when the moment hatches in time’s womb there will be no art talk. The only…

— Keropatse Kgositsile

“Ars Poetica I taught my words to love, I showed them my heart and would not give up until their syllables did not start…

— Nichita Stănescu

“Poetry...is full of visions pulled more from our hearts than from our minds. Our greatest poems are written in the dust of our deepest…

— John H Ritter

“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his…

— Plato

“I am the wind and the wind is invisible, all the leaves tremble but I am invisible, blackbird over the dark field but I…

— Richard Siken

“We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw…

— Ian McEwan