I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“Beauty can be born out of not only love, but also pain and other motivations.” — Following Whispers Copy Share Image
I guess I find the boundaries between poetry and prose to be somewhat permeable. — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“My house burned down But anyway, it was after The flower petals had already fallen” — Tachibana Higuchi Copy Share Image
“Today I introduced myself to my very own Heart, In silent agony, after all these years it bled apart.” — Ankita Singhal Copy Share Image
“Life goes on in the same manner, evil wins and peace is slaughtered. Change the channel, change the view, tired of the… — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
“Poetry provides a vehicle that takes me to places that logic won't go. It is a way of understanding the incomprehensible.” — John A. Vanek Copy Share Image
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass by… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
“The Bible says, ‘If any would not work, neither should he eat.’ Saint Paul wrote that, in Second Thessalonians, chapter three, verse… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“If you don't look before the dusk and beyond the dawn, you won't be able to see the sun. (Soar)” — Soar Soaring-Words.com Copy Share Image
I know my curiosity as a writer and as a person makes me really interested in moving to parts of the country… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“breath, life after seven decades plus three years is a lot of breathing. seventy three years on this earth is a lot… — Haki R. Madhubuti Copy Share Image
“It may well be on such a night of clouds and cruel colors that there is brought forth upon the earth such… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Poetry is a river; many voices travel in it; poem after poem moves along in the exciting crests and falls of the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“Poetry is like truth: on one level it simply is, and as such it is available to anyone. Anyone, that is, who… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
I suppose every one must have reflected how primeval and how poetical are the things that one carries in one's pocket; the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I will never cease advising my friends and enemies to read poetry before anything. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“My best testimonies are from the times I thought I couldn't survive.” — Tanya R. Liverman Copy Share Image
The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses. — JD Era Copy Share Image
“Poetry has isolated me from the world more than it has connected me to it.” — Peter Davis Copy Share Image
“Not words. nor laughter. but rather someone who will fall in love with your silence.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
