I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories. Bobby McFerrin bookchildpoetry Change image and share on social
I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. Isaac Rosenberg despairexcellentpoetry Change image and share on social
Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. Russell Baker airportanticipatebadly Change image and share on social
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something. Rita Dove cloudecstasyfeel Change image and share on social
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories. Margaret Walker ancestralbodycollective Change image and share on social
Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line. Nikki Sixx bookchapterconfine share on social
Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice. Phoebe Snow acousticallyartistback Change image and share on social
When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions. J. G. Ballard baudelairebeginbourgeois share on social
Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory. George William Curtis conversationescapeghost Change image and share on social
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us. John Ruskin archnaturepoetry Change image and share on social