From the very beginning, I wanted to be the best, whether it was sports or poetry. — Myles Garrett Copy Share Image
What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you. — Antonio Machado Copy Share Image
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“my happy is a high fever that will break, my happy is as hollow as a pin-pricked egg” — Sabrina Benaim Copy Share Image
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that… — Jack Prelutsky Copy Share Image
“Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of… — Nikita Gill Copy Share Image
Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Poetry for me has been a long pilgrimage, a journey and a growing relationship with the unknown. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
“Kretanje je duša svega što drhti. Započinje tako da se prvo dogodi trenutak onima koji žive trenutak, a onda se, onima koji… — Kemal Mujičić Artnam Copy Share Image
PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If I believe, truly believe our souls are meant to cross paths, in each and every life, traversing millennia and repeating this… — Abby Rosmarin Copy Share Image
I have no idea, actually, where I fit in, in terms of poetry camps. At AWP conferences, I have been on panels… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
“želja da te dodirnem pretvara se u želju da ti o tome govorim mada znam da riječi ne mogu to što mogu… — Dragoslav Dedović Copy Share Image
Istanbul, a universal beauty where poet and archeologist, diplomat and merchant, princess and sailor, northerner and westerner screams with same admiration. The… — Edmondo De Amicis Copy Share Image
“ Desert Pools I love too much; I am a river Surging with spring that seeks the sea, I am too generous… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Some poems take two to three years to finish. Rarely, a poem will arrive whole. It's nice when that happens. However, process… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves? — Joshua Slocum Copy Share Image
“Poetry is a principle of power invoked by all of us against our vanishing.” — Allen Grossman Copy Share Image
If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“If the poems please you more than my lips, I will never give you another kiss.” — Juan Ramón Jiménez Copy Share Image
“lean in to kiss me in all the places where the ache is the most special.” — Sanober Khan Copy Share Image
“The truth is the object of our lust But the light is still so very dim…” — Andrea Barbosa Copy Share Image
A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet. — Christian Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you. — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there. — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
