“The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.” — Juefan Huihong Copy Share Image
Only a house, quiet as snow, a space for myself to go, clean as paper before the poem. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
A poet, to whom no one cruel and imposing listens, / Disdained by senates, whispers to your dust, — Carolyn Kizer Copy Share Image
The way a small child might dream of visiting Disneyland, I dreamed of writing books. Never did I think my poems would… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
Poetry must speak of others, in order to speak for the poet's imagination, in order to speak of itself; it is slowed… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
“Leave the comfort of your dark cocoon... Allow your imagination to take flight. Embrace those marvelous magical wings and soar!” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady… — Susan Holloway Scott Copy Share Image
“I feel like shredded paper thrown to the wind, each poet took a piece of me and wrote a word or phrase...” — Luis Alexandre Ribeiro Branco Copy Share Image
“I write poetry not for publication but merely to kill time. Airplanes are a good place to write poetry and then throw… — Irish" Wayne Kelly Copy Share Image
“Wide sea, that one continuous murmur breeds Along the pebbled shore of memory! Many old rotten-timber'd boats there be Upon thy vaporous… — John Keats Copy Share Image
“There’s gold, and it’s haunting and haunting; It’s luring me on as of old; Yet it isn’t the gold that I’m wanting… — Robert W. Service Copy Share Image
“But love, first learnèd in a lady's eyes, Lives not alone immurèd in the brain, But, with the motion of all elements,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“These I have loved: Pork with apple sauce; tea in a heavy mug; The smell of new books, and musty ones; A… — Sarah Crossan Copy Share Image
There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that.… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I don't want people to write programmatic environmental poems, but I think sustainability should become deeply a part of the consciousness of… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
“She's a tangled mess of wild- a forest nymph, a goddess child. She's like the seductive sea - feral and fierce, calm… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“Let be be finale of seem. The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.” — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
What would they say if they knew I sit for two months on six lines of poetry? — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
“When it comes to love we are primates breaking sticks while pointing to our hearts.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a useful place for lamentation...poems are a place where we can cry out.” — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“We were strange in love her and I too wild to last too rare to die.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“The art of the successful poem is that is says more than its words say.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
