Art Quote by Joel Derfner

“In the beginning, poets make their best efforts to fit words into their rhyme and lyric. However, as time passes and the ink mystifies,…

— Alok Mishra

“I don’t bother with rhyme. Rarely Are two trees the same, one beside the other. I think and write like flowers have color But…

— Alberto Caeiro

I always wanted to kind of make the listener feel like it was them that I was talking about, or to the point that…

— Rakim

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

— Leila Samarrai

“Poetry is a painting of the imaginations of the human mind, but the reader needs to feel it and touch it.”

— Adewale Joel

“What does it all mean, poet? Well, Your brains beat into rhythm, you tell What we felt only; you expressed You hold things beautiful…

— Robert Browning

“Poetry is music for the human voice. Until you actually speak it or someone speaks it, it has not come into its own.”

— Maya Angelou

“This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one…

— Lauren Willig

“I am committed by trade to urging people to attend carefully to the verbal surfaces of what they read. Much of the pleasure and…

— Stephen Greenblatt

“Poetry wasn't written to be analysed: it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.”

— Nicholas Sparks

I knew I had a sharper mind than most others and I had a sense of rhyme. One didn't even need to sing melodies.…

— Raftaar

“I liked the immediacy, the transmutation of energy. I liked the task of drawing from oneself. One's ancestors. One's God. To be a human…

— Patti Smith