poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God. — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
“Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.” — Mary Crow Copy Share Image
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
While I don't satisfy my curiosity about the way I work, I'm terribly curious about the way other poets work. But I… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow,… — Alfred Tennyson Copy Share Image
Cherries are red and the sky is blue, love never crossed my mind until the day I met you — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The measure of one's love for good poetry and for good music is the hatred, the violent hatred, one feels for bad… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
My Verse, has been, is, and shall always be, a choir of beautiful light, a symphony of laughter, and a profound solo… — The Forgotten Copy Share Image
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
“I'm not afraid of anything anymore. I've found out Ghosts don't hide under my bed or in my closets either. They exist… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
“They would carry their books to the woods and read aloud to one another. At picnic lunches near Cooper’s Bluff, they recited… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a… — Nick Antosca Copy Share Image
“O come all ye faithful..." I began. "Joyful and triumphant..." Liam joined in. We made it through the first three words of… — Tammy Blackwell Copy Share Image
I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
“Spring is like a perhaps hand Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere)arranging a window,into which people… — E. E. Cummings Copy Share Image
“The poet wishes to strike beautiful notes, not new notes... To ask or expect a poet to strike a new note in… — Alfred B. Douglas Copy Share Image
“the delicate fragrance of rose hips lingered on my fingers from tending the garden .” — Meeta Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
The Language of Poetry may have many Tongues but her Kiss is Everlasting — Adrian Ernesto Cepeda Poet Copy Share Image
Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own. — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
