Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months. — Tom Wesselmann Copy Share Image
It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer. — Cornelius Eady Copy Share Image
Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Some certified nut Will try to tell you it's poetry, (It's extraordinary, it makes a great deal of sense) But watch out… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“Newspapers appeared like oracles on your doorstep- gilded fragments of anonymous love.” — Susan Rich Copy Share Image
I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women poets. — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together. — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts. — Gil Scott-Heron Copy Share Image
The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important?… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“what if you get most of what the eye sees? what if love came in seeds? what if we plant them and… — Youns Hussein Copy Share Image
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“The rat will adapt to most any landscape. The beaver will gnaw and slap and drag the landscape to fit her needs.… — Jarod K. Anderson Copy Share Image
“What’s there to find in a broken heart if not assembled pieces of love for a pristine start What’s there to see… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
I find it odd that, in real life people think I am funny but no one ever suspects that on the page!… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“ She Was A Phantom of Delight She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“ I KNEW IT WAS OVER when tonight you couldn't make the phone ring when you used to make the sun rise… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“One eats in holiness and the table becomes an altar. Martin Buber” — Sylvia Shaw Judson Copy Share Image
“I knew I loved you when 'home' went from being a place to being a person.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Sanity is a sonnet with a strict meter and rhyme scheme-and my mind is free verse.” — Holly Schindler Copy Share Image
I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers. — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“Bomb the world with music, pizza and poetry you idiots, not Semtex, C4 and RDX.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Reading a poem in translation is like kissing a woman through a veil. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it. — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap. — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
