“It is hard to stop loving the ocean, even after it has left you gasping.” — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't write poetry for the New Yorker. My poems appear in the Nation, mostly. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
The first man who compared woman to a rose was a poet; the second, an imbecile. — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
A cook is creative, marrying ingredients in the way a poet marries words. — Roger Verge Copy Share Image
“This morning could have been perfect. The cruel truth is they have never been. Give us loneliness or give us death.” — Sean Gabler Copy Share Image
The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing, you know--or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether we call it sacrifice, or poetry, or adventure, it is always the same voice that calls. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A lot of my activity in the theatre, and even in writing poems, was a kind of retrospective aggro on the English… — Tony Harrison Copy Share Image
And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The Author To Her Book Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht… — Anne Bradstreet Copy Share Image
At the time I was growing up, literature was involved with the so-called confessional poets. And I was not interested in that.… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
To love is the most Creative way to spend time But what if your alone with the past lies and lesson ful… — Marcus Bernard Copy Share Image
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
“If someone knocks on your door, my friend, and something in your blood beats and rests not and water in its stem,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“When Death Comes When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
“When it comes to love we are primates breaking sticks while pointing to our hearts.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a useful place for lamentation...poems are a place where we can cry out.” — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“The art of the successful poem is that is says more than its words say.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
“We were strange in love her and I too wild to last too rare to die.” — Atticus Poetry Copy Share Image
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
