“There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“She tells everyone she's taken. Yet her heart whispers: he's taking too long.” — Alfa H Copy Share Image
For me poems are acts re-done, and that can vibrate well into the future. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Empecé a escribir poemas cuando descubrí que se podía querer a una persona que no era de tu familia, menuda sorpresa me… — Gloria Fuertes Copy Share Image
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics. — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well. — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Time goes by at the speed of life Slower than a slow dance on a hot summer night Faster than the skin… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first. — Feist Copy Share Image
“A book, a poem, a play — they start as fantasms but they end up as things, like a box of crackers… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Tree At My Window Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on; But let there never… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I've learned. For a long time that's what… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
“Unlike these verses from the Koran, references to dehumanization in the hadith compiled two or three centuries later have a distinctly anti-Jewish… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
“However readers make a book theirs, the end is that book and reader become one. The world that is a book is… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world.… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“But more importantly, know I love you more than I can say with simple words. Poets have attempted for centuries to find… — Lissa Bryan Copy Share Image
I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
He that would earn the Poet's sacred name, Must write for future as for present ages. — Christopher Pearse Cranch Copy Share Image
“THE SEA: I’ve swallowed so many hearts and, oh God, I’m still mine alone.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Allow me to feel, Then I bow to you to heal, Looking to release With peace.” — Bri Miller Copy Share Image
