I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers
• Robert Wyatt
“I wonder how they found their soulmates
From among a crowd so big
In a world so wide”
• Vishü Rita Krocha
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top
• William Butler Yeats
If ever my hand will raise to your face, it would be just to wipe your tears.
• Miraj Patel
Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers
• George Orwell
With solitude comes freedom.
• Amy Cavanaugh
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may
• Charlotte Bronte
People happy in love have an air of intensity
• Stendhal
People love the beads. Everyone really loves to catch them
• Jerry Maher
'A collected poems' is either a gravestone or a testimonial to survival
• Al Purdy
As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum
• Jean Giraudoux
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil
• Henry Miller
Frost is the most sophisticated of poets
• Peter Davison
Math is a faith of believing something can be deduced from reality to idea and then back to reality.
• Gabriel Pinatacan
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech
• Henry David Thoreau
Mathematics is in irony. It simplifies things in a very complicated way.
• Gabriel Pinatacan
I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash
• Anthony Hopkins
I think it better that in times like these a poets mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right
• William Butler Yeats
Love is done when Love's begun,
Sages say,
But have Sages known?
Truth adjourn your Boon
Without Day.
• Emily Dickinson
I wanted to be successful, not famous
• George Harrison
Truth often lies in those words we quickly say... Or in those we hold inside forever ...
• Laura Mercurio Ebohon aka Laura LME
"I'll spend my whole life pleasing people."
• Ely Penn
"The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
• Aberjhani
The American Poet Who Went Home Again (2009)
' Suspicion Inquiring minded questions that eradicate freely out of your mouth.'
• Anna Lovering
x-ray
In una dittatura devi stare attento a quello che dici.
In una democrazia puoi dire quello che vuoi...
l'importante è che non cerchi di dimostrarlo.
[English Translation]
• Dario de Judicibus
A threat against the environment is a menace to the human nature.
• April Mae Berza
"Fiction is my natural skin, even you strip my skin you can never take it away from me."
• Ely Penn
And all we feared inside the night
shows true in morning's biased light.
• Garth von Buchholz
Industry in Morning (poem)
If I'd ever grown prosperous like Sahjahan was, I'd not have waited for my beloved's death before I erected a Taj Mahal.
• Suman Pokhrel
Lies as truth, in eyes truth is lie