Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
All this time I drank you like the cure, when maybe you were the poison. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback. — Merritt Wever Copy Share Image
“Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
“English kings married their cousins and so their kids were as sharp as clubs.” — Peter Prasad Copy Share Image
“Accidental, unintended connections are the best concocted by the universe long before realizing the moon's heartbeat was waiting for you.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious. — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical. — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
“The poet was a fool who wanted no conflict among us, gods or people. Harmony needs low and high, as progeny needs… — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet —… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
I would like to spend more time with Spanish poetry. I know French better than Spanish, but Spanish was my first language,… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
“Just wanted to know how you're feeling, As I sit here and think of your progress, It takes a lot of time,… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
“God must be a season, grandma said, looking out at the blizzard drowning her garden. My footsteps on the sidewalk were the… — Ocean Vuong Copy Share Image
“Try to be thoughtful, don't make the poor man say it; see how human he is, he has children of his own,… — Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno Copy Share Image
“Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create… — R.M. Engelhardt Copy Share Image
Because every book of art, be it a poem or a cupola, is understandably a self-portrait of its author, we won't strain… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes. If that is your state then what of our cries? What can… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I co-edited an anthology called Interfictions with Delia Sherman and wrote a short scholarly book on three women poets called Voices from… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet. — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose. — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
The one stream of poetry which is continually flowing is slang. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made. — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Since the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life. — Niki de St. Phalle Copy Share Image
“The night has a thousand eyes and I'm a gypsy dancer still hungry for more.” — Bob Miller Copy Share Image
“I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore Copy Share Image
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
