“Some can't handle the fiery poet, how she rips into souls burning words into prose.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“The secret to life is to live as though you know the secret." Barbara Botch” — Barbara Botch Copy Share Image
If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“The Writer and Poet is excusable only if he is Successful. Makes Money.” Within” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
“What is more dangerous than to become a poet? which is, as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Swan-white of heart; I smile not ever neither do I weep. I am as lovely as a dream in stone.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too… — robert m drake Copy Share Image
“Dear friend, I have searched all night through each burnt paper, but I fear I will never find the formula to let… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
As for my stuff, I'm just doing guest verses for other people's records. I try to stay recording, because if I don't,… — Eminem Copy Share Image
Poetry’s medium is the individual chest and throat and mouth of whoever undertakes to say the poem. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“My dearest friend Abigail, These probably could be the last words I write to you and I may not live long enough… — Huseyn Raza Copy Share Image
It is easy to suppose that few people realize on that occasion, which comes to all of us, when we look at… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“Literary Lipsticks by Elaine Equi The Best American Poetry Red Wheelbarrow I Have Eaten the Plums Poppies in October Pink Christmas Red… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
“What? Am I to be a listener only all my days? Am I never to get my word in—I that have been… — Juvenal Copy Share Image
The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he… — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does… — Amy Sillman Copy Share Image
“There was a sound you could smell / like you were inhaling tomorrow.” — Cameron Conaway Copy Share Image
“May be its mine bad-luck Or yours not to get me But I still have hope Of being yours” — Hasil Paudyal Copy Share Image
“some see things as they are: others as they are” (p.82) ~CXCI” — Manav Sachdeva Maasoom Copy Share Image
I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott. — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
