“The words of a good book may be profuse, but the words of a good poem are profound.” — Gregory John Copy Share Image
“Your fate is never determined when your massive imagination is.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
“Let them shoot us in the head, My blood will grow roots and will blossom.” — Visar Zhiti Copy Share Image
I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire. — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's… — J. D. Salinger Copy Share Image
Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
“I will Basquiat the canvas of your body like a Broadway Junction wall…and Gordon Parks you for those dark midnights when your… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“I'd rather make my crib a house of God and pray directly to God verses, than listening to this hypocritical leaders/priest experiencing… — Napz Cherub Pellazo Copy Share Image
The first thing I remember writing was a poem - about a princess who sat on a hill and sang all day… — Ruth Jones Copy Share Image
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
About the beginning of the seventeenth century appeared a race of writers that may be termed the metaphysical poets. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“The white woman across the aisle from me says 'Look, look at all the history, that house on the hill there is… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
I think you can have the greatest lyrics in the world and if it doesn't have the best tune in the world… — Julian Cope Copy Share Image
“ Invitation to Eternity Say, wilt thou go with me, sweet maid, Say, maiden, wilt thou go with me Through the valley-depths… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“Love is a fiction, a fable, an ode spun by poets and drunks, a fantastical tale told across one thousand and one… — Lauren Blakely Copy Share Image
“Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“KINGDOM OF THE WOMB From her thighs, she gives you life And how you treat she who gives you life Shows how… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Do you wanna be a poet and write? Do you wanna be an actor up in lights? Do you wanna be soldier,… — Jo Dee Messina Copy Share Image
There is this tendency to think that if you could only find the magic way, then you could become a poet. "Tell… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
“When I was hungry I fed almost daily on the words of her songs.” — Jaroslav Seifert Copy Share Image
I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China. — Shan Sa Copy Share Image
Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry. — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“funny how our hearts were designed to love so fiercely. but break ever so gently.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“Are you sure about this? It’s a bit short.” “So? It’s poetry, not dick size.” — J.L. Merrow Copy Share Image
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
I want a poem which is made of compression, passion, precision, symmetry, & disruption. — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well. — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry, is the insulation that lies between the inner walls of the mind. — Robert M. Hensel Copy Share Image
In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
