“It was a lot less pleasant than travel via a discorporated poet.” — Jonathan L. Howard Copy Share Image
Poetry is a dumb Buddha who thinks a donkey is as important as a diamond. — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“You can't stop dreaming just because the night never seems to end.” — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
“My world was the size of a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw her” — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
“Icarus should have waited for nightfall, the moon would have never let him go.” — Nina Mouawad Copy Share Image
“His love for his wife and son was not beautiful—no one would ever write a poem to the passion of a man… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great… — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
“...winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Poetry is the language of the soul; Poetic Prose, the language of my heart. Each line must flow as in a song,… — Lori R. Lopez Copy Share Image
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
"Stop Already" is a fairly new poem in a group that was just published by Feminist Studies, which is why I sent… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint,… — Sybil Marshall Copy Share Image
“Poet's Work" Grandfather advised me: Learn a trade I learned to sit at desk and condense No layoffs from this condensery” — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
If my tone is mocking, the tone of someone accustomed to helplessness, this is natural: the poet is a condemned man for… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“Why can’t a musician try to make a cinematic “state of the nation” poem told through dream imagery and pop music? They… — Dan Fox Copy Share Image
“the bouquet Between me and the world you are a bay, a sail the faithful ends of a rope you are a… — Bei Dao Copy Share Image
After I saw my first poem published, I became interested in the immortalization of words and the fact that you could put… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
But maybe it's up the hills or under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
“And the most beautiful words ever spoken, I have not yet said to you.” — Nazım Hikmet Copy Share Image
A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen. — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“I am a butterfly poet birthed from pain flying with the freedom of my verses.” — Susie Clevenger Copy Share Image
“... this longing inside me that never goes away, must be a poem...must be you ...” — John Geddes Copy Share Image
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“The recommended retirement plan is arabesque, then leap and smash on the seawall.” — Natalie Shapero Copy Share Image
