Brain Quote by Thomas Hood

“For my days vanish like smoke; my bones burn like glowing embers. My heart is blighted and withered like grass; I forget to eat…

— Jessica Fortunato

“ Anagram of Seeking by Susan Laughter Meyers Sit, unplanted, with your back to a tree, or sink to your knees . If sorrow…

— Susan Laughter Meyers

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that…

— John James Audubon

“ The Day is Done The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were…

— C. Day Lewis

“ Ars Poetica A poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit, Dumb As old medallions to the thumb, Silent as the…

— Archibald MacLeish

Speak not, move not, but listen, the sky is full of gold. No ripple on the river, no stir in field or fold, All…

— William Morris

This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very…

— Rumi

“Symptom Recital I do not like my state of mind; I'm bitter, querulous, unkind. I hate my legs, I hate my hands, I do…

— Dorothy Parker

Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?

— George Crabbe

“Poetry is simple when you write what you see and feel, searching for the words only makes it difficult”

— Rayvon L. Browne

To those who know thee not, no words can paint! And those who know thee, know all words are faint!

— Hannah More