“Anything you want very badly is located outside of your comfort zone.” — Tracey L. Moore Copy Share Image
A gay poet is just one of the very many poet gays of yesterday, today and tomorrow. — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
“He thought, in fine, that the dreams of poets were the realities of life.” — John William Polidori Copy Share Image
“She is a poem. She is an old one, a new one, one waiting to be written. She is.” — N'Zuri Za Austin Copy Share Image
“The imperfect is our paradise. —WALLACE STEVENS, “The Poems of Our Climate,” 1938.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Another Christmas Poem Blood Christmas, here again. Let us raise a loving cup: Peace on earth, goodwill to men, And make them… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
“I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn’t how they used to do it a… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
“The poem was called “Goblin Market,” and the book whose proof pages were on the desk was titled Goblin Market and Other… — Tim Powers Copy Share Image
To experience poetry is to see over and above reality. It is to discover that which is beyond the physical, to experience… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“... It seems to me / the the great bards of the 20th century are in Publicity / those Keatses and Shelleys… — Ernesto Cardenal Copy Share Image
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
Poetry is poetry. My process is I try to write the best poem I can, in the best way to communicate whatever… — Bao Phi Copy Share Image
My favourite room in my house is easily the top room, which is a bedroom but also a bathroom, with a big,… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I wrote poetry in middle school and high school and even through college. It was bad. I just don't think I'm very… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Girl with the burning golden eyes, And red-bird song, and snowy throat: I bring you gold and silver moons, And diamond stars,… — Grace Noll Crowell Copy Share Image
“Cut lose your ties with expectation. Your dreams are charlatans, your memories, stalemating quarks. Listen only to the pull of your atoms… — Virginia Petrucci Copy Share Image
Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I'm skilled in the Twitter and Instagram sense of the social media verse. — Victoria Justice Copy Share Image
Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
poetry ... is another way to be hurled straight into the heart of God. — Marjorie Holmes Copy Share Image
“Children delight in poetry if they are not frightened away by adults' fear of poetry.” — Mary Crow Copy Share Image
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet. — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
“the delicate fragrance of rose hips lingered on my fingers from tending the garden .” — Meeta Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
