“He calls me desperate (on my tombstone) I hope poetic license will allow: HUNGRY” — Eli Coppola Copy Share Image
“Love is a game of tic-tac-toe, constantly waiting for the next x or o.” — Lang Leav Copy Share Image
“It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The poem, in a sense, is no more or less than a little machine for remembering itself ... Poetry is therefore primarily… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
My father was a rare poet. He was somebody who worked in the trenches. When he wanted to speak about social justice… — Shabana Azmi Copy Share Image
The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“A poet need not trouble himself if he lies. He lies only in the matter of love, as the regions of the… — Mahmoud Darwish Copy Share Image
“It is a two-line poem, which could be really sweet, or sour at times and it depends, totally on the way we… — Saravana Kumar Murugan Copy Share Image
“Man is in his own microcosm akin to a personal box, with poetry as its lid which it can defend itself from… — Leila Samarrai Copy Share Image
“Everyone calls him Blockhead No one sings his praises Or takes him to heart... That is the kind of person I want… — Kenji Miyazawa Copy Share Image
“Percy and Books Percy does not like it when I read a book. He puts his face over the top of it,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“They flee from me that sometime did me seek With naked foot, stalking in my chamber. I have seen them gentle, tame,… — Thomas Wyatt Copy Share Image
“As the dawn loves the sunlight that must cease Ere dawn again may rise and pass in peace; Must die that she… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
“So bashful when I spied her! So pretty ― so ashamed! So hidden in her leaflets Lest anybody find ― So breathless… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Poems, even when narrative, do not resemble stories. All stories are about battles, of one kind or another, which end in victory… — John Berger Copy Share Image
language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
A day which passed without a poem from my pen I considered lost and misused. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“Celebrate one soul, touch one heart, light one lamp; and the whole universe moves.” — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
My style of performance poetry came from the beatniks, Allen Ginsberg. — Patti Smith 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
