My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Celebrate one soul, touch one heart, light one lamp; and the whole universe moves.” — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
For every half, there is a whole. For every hand, there's one to hold. For every poem, there is a meaning. And… — Murali Iyengar Copy Share Image
Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of other writers - you… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Her skin smelled like the twilight moon and her eyes looked primal, like a hungry animal. She was darkness – dangerous, beautiful darkness.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Compose aloud: poetry is a sound. Never explain- your reader is as smart as you. Your reader is not just any reader,… — Basil Bunting Copy Share Image
“What was hard was discovering the true life of the poem inside its technical scaffolding.” — Linda Wagner-Martin Copy Share Image
Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats… — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by… — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
You have to keep the promise that you have made! Even if the world stops you. You have to come! My longing,… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
“Jonathan Swift (November 30, 1667 – October 19, 1745) was an Irish cleric, satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for Whigs then for… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“For more than half a century I have tried to confront greatness directly, hardly a fashionable stance, but I see no other… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“And blessed be the first sweet suffering that I felt in being conjoined with love and the bow and the shafts with… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“I felt the threads of connection between us—fragile filaments, so easily snapped. Like the poem at shift into his side, we were… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
“And the stars blinked as they watched her carefully jealous of the way she shone.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Our necessity. Our open mouth Where bread Goes in And dreams Come out.” — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people. — Sally Phillips Copy Share Image
“We are God’s art. We are God’s poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.” — Gregory Dickow Copy Share Image
“how is it that he's always in my thoughts. even when i am not thinking.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“The gentle downward slope gets steeper and imperceptibly becomes an abyss.” — Tomas Tranströmer Copy Share Image
“Do not awaken galaxies inside of someone if you are not even fond of stars.” — Lucy Quin Copy Share Image
Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
A poet must be a professor of the five senses and must open doors among them. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
“Read a nice poem or watch the sunrise, both are the same thing!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
