This is my heartbeat like yours, it is a hatchet It can build a house or tear one down. — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
“Evanescent grace, you vanish as a vapor does, or love in open air.” — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
Poetry, for me, conveys the essence of narrative rather than its particulars. — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
“Three birds sit on a wire One bird poops Three birds shit on a wire” — Eric Mancini Copy Share Image
In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
“In his laughter, he found echoes of all the happiness he ever wanted” — Kakarot Hancock Copy Share Image
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“...these vignettes I sketch for you - what are they? watercolors ..yes and dreams blurred with tears ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth's noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
I didnt write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for… — Cynthia Voigt Copy Share Image
“O stand, stand at the window As the tears scald and start; You shall love your crooked neighbour With your crooked heart.… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dissociating and anarchic force which through analogy, associations and imagery, thrives on the destruction of known relationships. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“for the path of comets/ is the path of poets: they burn without warming,/ pick without cultivating. They are: an explosion, a… — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
“When Rachel Carson accepted the National Book Award, she said, 'if there is poetry in my book about the sea it is… — Jim Lynch Copy Share Image
“And maybe one winter it will get too cold and I’ll forget about the summers we once shared. My family portrait might… — Nicholaus Patnaude Copy Share Image
“You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
There seems to be something poetically that doesn't work or is limiting when you call God 'God' in a poem. When I… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“Renaissance Humanism, which under Petrarch’s formation and tutelage vindicated the importance of poetry and rhetoric as effectors of an intimate bond between… — Charles Trinkaus Copy Share Image
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The anthology meets with two different kinds of reactions in living poets. They will either write toward the anthology or away from… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
“...the feelings that pass between us are deeper than fleshly touches...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Time passes too fast. Like a hummingbird flying by, it’s just a blur to my eyes.” — Amanda Leigh Copy Share Image
The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own. — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
“Look I'm not the God of Poetry or Good Descriptions, okay? - Hades” — Kaitlin Bevis Copy Share Image
“She left my world spinning like windmills on the plains of la Mancha.” — Stephen Brooke Copy Share Image
