Desert Quote by Dejan Stojanovic

Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.

— Michael Ondaatje

“Friends, the ancient word is dead; the ancient books are dead; our speech with holes like worn-out shoes is dead; our poems have gone…

— Tarek Osman

So you have in Iraq some people falling prey to the system, some people managing to negotiate independence, and other people becoming outlaws, and…

— Elliott Colla

“I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert…

— Charlotte Brontë

“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

“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

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then…

— John Fuller

Poetry is a string of words that parades without a permit.

— Linda Hogan

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor…

— Wilfred Owen

“The fierce poet of the Middle Ages wrote, "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here," over the gates of the lower world. The emancipated…

— G.K. Chesterton

Smuggling poems out of prison in the soles of mt shoes i'm way past finding salvation in the arms of a woman, I look…

— Raegan Butcher

Poetry is a means of redemption.

— Wallace Stevens