Poetry

Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Poetry

"Only poetry inspires poetry."

Inspire Poetry

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Poetry

"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem."

Writing Air Poetry

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Poetry

"Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting."

Pain Silence Poetry

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

Poetry

"Nor sequent centuries could hit Orbit and sum of SHAKSPEARE's wit. The men who lived with him became Poets, for the air was fame."

Men Air Poetry

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Tupac Shakur Rapper, Actor, Activist

Poetry

"Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips."

Way Poetry Ships

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Robert Frost Poet

Poetry

"Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. . . . Read it a hundred times; it will forever keep its freshness as a metal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went."

Forever Poetry Ice

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Stephen Burt Poet

Poetry

"Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back."

Generations Connections Poetry

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Neil Young Musician, Singer-Songwriter

Poetry

"Went looking for faith on the forest floor, and it showed up everywhere. In the sun, and the water, and the falling leaves, the falling leaves of time."

Fall Water Poetry

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Henry David Thoreau Writer, Philosopher

Poetry

"We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we."

Littles Poetry Poetic

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Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher, Writer

Poetry

"Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can."

Want Poetry Exaggeration

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Khalil Gibran Poet, Writer

Poetry

"Thinking is always the stumbling stone to poetry."

Thinking Life Poetry

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Poetry

"What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion."

Heart Passion Poetry

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Poetry

"All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible."

Littles Poetry Lyrical

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist

Poetry

"Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath."

Art Giving Poetry

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer

Poetry

"How does the ordinary person come to the transcendent? For a start, I would say, study poetry. Learn how to read a poem. You need not have the experience to get the message, or at least some indication of the message. It may come gradually. (92)"

Inspirational Ordinary Poetry

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Mary Oliver Poet

Poetry

"Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude."

Poetry Verbs Adjectives

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Mary Oliver Poet

Poetry

"The three ingredients of poetry: the mystery of the universe, spiritual curiosity, the energy of language."

Spiritual Poetry Curiosity

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist

Poetry

"Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life."

Writing Inspiring Poetry

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Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer

Poetry

"I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject."

Poetry Subjects Blithe

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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet

Poetry

"The only true aristocracy is that of consciousness."

Poetry Novelists Aristocracy

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