I don't like poems that invent memories, I have enough of my own. — Andre Naffis-Sahely Copy Share Image
Every poet hopes that after-times Shall set some value on his votive lay. — Caroline Norton Copy Share Image
“Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it --from "Elm", written 19 April 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Those who lead us to our sacred selves walk not before us, but beside.” — Heather K. O'Hara Copy Share Image
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits. — J. Carter Brown Copy Share Image
“Disappointment for Slavs is always more poetic and profound, as well as more frequent, than it is for Americans.” — Stuart Rojstaczer Copy Share Image
Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There is an extraordinary degree of amity among Washington poets. They hang together. You would be hard pressed to find that in… — Maxine Kumin Copy Share Image
The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales. — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“My mother is a poem I'll never be able to write, though everything I write is a poem to my mother.” — Sharon Doubiago Copy Share Image
I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
You must believe: a poem is a holy thing - a good poem, that is. The poem, even a short time after… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
I was fortunate enough to get a job at my alma mater, which brought me back to Indiana after being gone for… — Adrian Matejka Copy Share Image
“poetry! Indeed, verses are the only thing that your letter lacks, Makar Alexievitch. And what tender feelings I can read in it—what… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
All ultimately intermarried to produce a race of many strains, which may account for the paradox that a people famed for stolid,… — Arthur Bryant Copy Share Image
“The scientists not only sanctified human feelings, but also found an excellent evolutionary reason to do so. After Darwin, biologists began explaining… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying… — Douglas Florian Copy Share Image
“During this very, very long poem You could have connected Maybe you are connecting Maybe we’re connecting See, I believe that the… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“Life is crazy, and sometimes it totally veers off course. Seriously, sometimes it flows by nice and smooth and then wham! you… — Ilsa Madden-Mills Copy Share Image
Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there. — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
It is better to live in a world of poetic meaning rather than hardcore reality. — Mark Gonzales Copy Share Image
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much a heart can hold. — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory. — Peter Davison Copy Share Image
A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
