“Decide if a poem is a question or a declaration, a meditation or an outcry.” — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“Winter only hangs on long enough for us to forget the winters that came before.” — Justin Bond Copy Share Image
I really just love reading. It's my favorite thing, performing my poems live. — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“I like to quote the words of Kierkegaard, that 'life ia a poem that we are able to write ourselves; but a… — Nathan Soderblom Copy Share Image
“We must all be allowed our moments of insanity and senselessness. Without them, what sort of dull, lifeless creatures would we be?” — Hannah Linder Copy Share Image
As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Write poetry as if you were in love. If you are always in love you will not always write the same poem,… — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of… — Aaron Belz Copy Share Image
“Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Because it is occasionally possible, just for brief moments, to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
When you awaken in morning's hush, I am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circle flight, I am soft stars… — Mary Elizabeth Frye Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“ No Through Road All in vain, I will cease now My long absorption with the plough, With the tame and the… — R.S. Thomas Copy Share Image
If you look at the Directory of American Poets and Writers, you know there are hundreds of poets in New York City.… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“All the poems of the poet who has entered into his poethood are poems of homecoming.” — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“What is it about growing older That bites venomously Into the neck of hope?” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
“there were no bones in his body, only tunes, and no blood, but poetry.” — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I cant look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Youth endures all things, kings and poetry and love. Everything but time. — James Crumley Copy Share Image
It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind. — William Congreve Copy Share Image
“Death stoops over me. I'm a problem in chess. He has the solution.” — Tomas Tranströmer Copy Share Image
“And when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.” — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
