“How can love's spaciousness be conveyed in the narrow confines of one syllable?” — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“You are as curious as the sea, asking a poem of the shore.” — Mostafa A. M. Elbehery Copy Share Image
I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“if you've lived this long, it's because you've squashed any poetry you had in you.” — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“…what I told them was 'a poem,' a thing made by a maker, a work of art, part history of long ago,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old hapless gods. And they will be… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I honestly love writing, but I think I'm terrible at it. I just write out my soul and heart. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a… — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
“The madman bum and angel beat in time with the absolute heart of the poem butchered out of their own bodies good… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral… — Margaret Walker Copy Share Image
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, From earth to heaven. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“These words are my mother’s, my father’s, my brother’s, my lender’s, my garbage man’s—the poem runs like oil on fire beneath this… — BJ Ward Copy Share Image
When I am writing poetry, I try to make my mind go a little lazy, to not think too much, as a… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“Mallarmé described this agony as a battle that took place on God's "boney wing". "I struggled with that creature of ancient and… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
“The day before yesterday, in the woods of Touques, in a charming spot beside a spring, I found old cigar butts and… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“And the truth is that I'm not , Ed, is what I wanted to tell you. I'm not arty like everyone says… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible,… — Bruce Holland Rogers Copy Share Image
I can cite a chapter and verse of literature at the times saying Italians don't speak our language, these folks coming from… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
I'm always doing poems from a place of not-knowing, a place of ignorance in a way. — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it. — Gemma Files Copy Share Image
“Maybe what this is. What we have, is something that will save us from ourselves.” — robert m drake Copy Share Image
The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I consider poetry very subordinate to moral and political science. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“I wanna make growing old with you the last poem I ever have to write” — Michael Biondi Copy Share Image
