We don't get groupies.We get teenagers who want to read us their poetry. — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
The poetry I grew up on is really an intense form of poetry; it's so pure and powerful. — K'naan Copy Share Image
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Poetry unlocks that unseen world and that unheard language to the real world.” — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
“New Rome will be destroyed By the attacks of new vandals. God always remains silent.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.” — Andrew Marvell Copy Share Image
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better… — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind is the great poem of winter, the man, Who, to find what will suffice, Destroys romantic tenements Of rose and… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“We left you there, lonely, Beauty your power, Wisdom your watchman, To hold the clay tower. from 'The Tale of the Tiger… — Vachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
Actually, my first literary heroes were the Romantic poets, so I began to get serious by writing poems. I have notebooks full… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Nowadays, what an award gives is a sense of solidarity with the poetry guild, as it were: sustenance coming from the assent… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
“If you fail in copying from a master you succeed in birthing an original art. Kushal Poddar, Poet” — Kushal Poddar, Poet Copy Share Image
The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“back in the middle ages they burned unruly women at the stake and out of the ashes of their bones and flesh… — Leah Harris Copy Share Image
Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table… — George Farquhar Copy Share Image
My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
The fact is that I have lived with the belief that power, any kind of power, was the one thing forbidden to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Back Burner Put the stress on the back burner It only burns its way back Put your thoughts on the future and… — Clarissa O. Clemens Copy Share Image
I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny… — Peter Meinke Copy Share Image
“Edin Viso's poetry and prose bear the obvious marks of dark drama-of a soul variously splayed apart and cinched back together...This is… — Stephen T. Berg Copy Share Image
“Don't analyze her love. Just turn the green light on and move into her soul.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other. — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
I learn a lot about my poems when I read them by the way people respond to them. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
A great poem leaves so much room for everybody to have such a different reaction to it. — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
“The illusion reflected within the mirror whispered a door of returning daydreams...” — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“All paths lead to death, our premature sacrifice for future spawn (from Elixir)” — Bryan Murphy Copy Share Image
Sappho survives, because we sing her songs; And Eschylus, because we read his plays! — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
“The best way to understand the soul of America is read Walt Whitman's poetry” — Dermot McCabe Copy Share Image
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“my love for you will always be like a mountain stream. quiet. persistent. continuous.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
