Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed and presented all of the clues that we need to...

…a bard’s down-to-earth love: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red and when she walks, treads on the ground…

Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’ Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare...

Movements of the body are a reflection of the soul.

Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]It’s meAnd who is the poet writing this poem?That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

The so-called poet with his vague dreams and ideals is indeed no better than a harmless lunatic; the true poet is the worker, who grips life’s throat and wrings out its secret, who selects austerely...

Impulsive passion please set me free.

And this is what being an artist means, being a poet? To sacrifice yourself for your art, sacrifice your heart for your art, because it’s only through something broken that something beautiful can grow.

A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring,...

The Poets light but Lamps-Themselves-go out-

Poetry can be more eloquent than the most eloquent sermons, and it becomes a weapon more formidable than the sharpest of swords; whenever such a poem–which finds its correct tune and conveys the excitement of...

In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at...

Marko Vešović sjedi u Staroj Grčkoj na bijelom kamenu…nad njim nebo..

There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says ‘Poeta nascitur non fit’ the translation of which is— the poet is born, not made.

God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the...

Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves....

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you’re an artist, by children if you’re not.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

He said, ‘I can’t teach someone how to write,’ … He just thought if you were a poet, you wrote poetry.

Creation of a pregnant imagination.

Create with the heart; build with the mind.

Love is wind for the soul

An artist is identical with an anarchist,’ he cried. ‘You might transpose the words anywhere. An anarchist is an artist. The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment...

A Poet = A willingness to be vulnerable & to trust the inner voice.

I am the Constellation of my own

Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.

There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.

He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in religion or politics, or society, he gave up his heart to...

Dance is the healing treasure within your spirit that only movements of passion can set free.

The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

Only the poet can look beyond the detail and see the whole picture.

This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something changes in myself, not so much my inclinations or my tastes as my...

Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.

I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.

The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I...

…what else would a poet priest do on an endless night, but write of love?…

Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the...

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

In this world there are thousands of healers but none possesses the medication of spiritual ecstasy like dance.

when you’re a poetyou can dish out whatever’son your mind and you don’t have toapologize for it

Question not, but live and labourTill yon goal be won,Helping every feeble neighbour,Seeking help from none;Life is mostly froth and bubble,Two things stand like stone,Kindness in another’s trouble,Courage in your own.

We simply can’t feel fulfilled by love we pay for.

… and I realise the only way to tell the others is through the way my voice can take these broken wordsand turn it into music. Turn it into poetry.And I sing to make myself...

We choose exile as a vantage point; from exile we look back on the rejected

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

Poetry is another name for a person’s telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one’s own perceptions.