In a poem the words should be as pleasing to the ear as the meaning is to the mind. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
“How comforting it would be if we could wrap our souls in blankets too.” — Kaitlyn N. Lentulo Copy Share Image
“So be we king or be we bum the reed still whistles the heart still hums” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Si la liberación no está dentro de mí, no está, para mi, en ninguna parte.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“She reminded me that I could write stories,/ could be struck by lightning & live.” — Jen Currin Copy Share Image
“You are all the poetry I have written all the words I know I've heard” — Tyler Kent White Copy Share Image
Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“In everyone’s life, there is a line between reality and dreams; but poets don’t have that line.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two… — Gregory Pardlo Copy Share Image
“I give the command and adhere to the impulses arising from the same power that balances the stars and spins the earth… — Rhys Blanco Copy Share Image
“For all but the sliver of poetry fans, over the past forty years popular song lyrics have been the nation’s poetry.” — John McWhorter Copy Share Image
Nearly everybody is looking for something brave to do. I don't know why people shouldn't write poetry. That's brave. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Of course the other and more serious way in which it all happens is that one finds in poems and language some… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“In the American Grain" "Ninth grade, and bicycling the Jersey highways: I am a writer. I was half-wasp already, I changed my… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
“Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down, 'Twas sad as sad could be; And we did speak only to break The… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
“That’s the beauty of poetry,” I said. “That language is inadequate to describe life. So poetry just tries to bring up emotions.… — Victor Methos Copy Share Image
“Wawashkesh these apples are for you, red on the white snow, their cider tang will find you in the gray woods. There… — Ron Riekki Copy Share Image
“He was in fact a poet without words, the more absorbed and endangered, that the springing waters were dammed back in his… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Most times I look at Shadow and Poet's work, I see something different from what the words are telling me. I like… — Cath Crowley Copy Share Image
“I can pull you taut, Ashleigh. Like the poems. I can bring you back together. You are so fucking delicious, Ashleigh. So… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
“ She has the look of one who seeks some greater and destroying passion: ” — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“Look upward to him Look upward on our goal Keep your eyes on him Look upward to him” — April Nichole Copy Share Image
“Poets use countless words to describe their pain, but I only need three: I miss you.” — Caroline George Copy Share Image
On every verse I do, I'm going to try to improve myself in some type of way. — Paul Wall Copy Share Image
“Love's language is imprecise, fits more like mittens than gloves.” — Jeannine Atkins Copy Share Image
Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you. — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
