Poetry is a deliberate attempt to make language suggestive and imprecise. — Kenneth Koch Copy Share Image
“And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking. ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think, I need a spare heart to feel all the things I feel.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught — Frances Ridley Havergal Copy Share Image
The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Poetry without truth, is like a rose without thorns. Still pretty, But sometime the real beauty comes from the things that can… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it. — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
“for the book. Discuss the novel in light of this poem. What do you think he is saying about rightdoing and wrongdoing… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
When words become a poem, it makes sense to me, but I don't know how to explain to someone why the words… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I don't like basements, but definitely basements could be poems. Not fond of skin diseases, but again, there's a pattern. Probably anything… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game. — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“Islamic apologists in the West today commonly assert that verse 9:29 commands warfare only against the Jews and Christians who fought against… — Robert Spencer Copy Share Image
I once asked Myung Mi Kim where gender is located in her work, and she said simply, "it's everywhere," resisting the notion… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“A poet not only has to observe but also absorb all the emotions objectively in order to express them in verse. Only… — Alok Mishra Copy Share Image
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An artist makes something to be physically experienced by another person. It's a raw, freely chosen, interpersonal relationship between the maker and… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I think that 'Prayers' is a really interesting one because we wrote it well before the border crisis was happening, and in… — Benji Madden Copy Share Image
“I am too pure for you or anyone. From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I am addicted to poetry, but the truth is I cannot pass up a good hard-boiled mystery. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Poets, the first instructors of mankind, Brought all things to the proper native use. — Horace Copy Share Image
A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning. — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I was too slow a mover to be a boxer. It was much easier to be a poet. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Exaggerated history is poetry, and truth referred to a new standard. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Predators prey on the weak; poets prey on brilliant ideas.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable. — Paul Claudel Copy Share Image
When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
